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 MERIDA, Venezuela (AP) - A Venezuelan passenger plane slammed into a steep mountainside in the Andes, killing all 46 people on board, officials said.
The twin-engine plane was shattered to bits upon impact, leaving only its tail largely intact and a swath of charred ground amid scrub brush at an altitude of 13,500 feet.
Search teams reached the remote spot by helicopter and rappelled down with ropes to reach the rugged crash site, Gen. Ramon Vinas, head of the civil aviation authority, said Friday. "By the way it crashed we can determine there are no survivors," he said.
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