Plane crashes in Venezuela with 152 passengers

A passenger plane has crashed in remote western Venezuela with 152 passengers aboard says an aviation official. It was unclear whether anyone survived.

The West Caribbean Airways plane was headed from Panama to Martinique when its pilot reported engine trouble to the Caracas airport, said Francisco Paz, president of the National Aviation Institute. Airport authorities lost radio contact with the plane later in the area of Machiques, in the western state of Zulia, he said.
- REUTERS