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Colombian Plane With 152 on
Board Crashes in Venezuela
A Colombian airliner with 152
people on board crashed in
western Venezuela on early
Tuesday, Venezuelan television
reports said.
Interior Minister Jesse Chacon
told local television that
authorities were searching for
survivors from the aircraft that
was headed from Panama to
Martinique in the Caribbean.
The airliner suffered engine
trouble before the crash, the
minister said.
"According to our estimates, the
plane crashed in Sierra de
Perija between 3 a.m. (0700 GMT)
and 3:45 a.m. (0745 GMT)," he
said.
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