No survivors as plane wreck found

A VENEZUELAN passenger plane slammed into a steep mountainside in the Andes, killing all 46 people on board, officials said yesterday.

“By the way it crashed we can determine there are no survivors,” said General Ramon Vinas, head of the civil aviation authority.

Search teams reached the remote site by helicopter and had to lower themselves with ropes onto the “complicated” mountainous terrain, General Vinas said.