linkSept. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Fifteen people were killed and dozens of passengers were taken to hospitals after a plane crash landed and burst into flames in eastern Venezuela.
“There are exactly 36 people who are, thanks to God, still among us and 15 people who died,” Bolivar state Governor Francisco Rangel Gomez said on state television this evening.
The accident occurred at 9:50 a.m. as the ATR-42 turboprop operated by state airline Conviasa was nearing its destination of Ciudad Guayana, 330 miles southeast of Caracas, after having taken off from Margarita Island. The pilot reported he was having problems controlling the turboprop before the crash, according to the regional disaster response chief, Jose Garcia.
Glad to see more survivors