In Venezuela, Body Found on Beach Sent for Testing
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CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan authorities searched the ocean floor for a twin-engine plane that disappeared near the tourist destination of Los Roques Islands on January 4, after police recovered a body that had washed ashore.
Police are taking the man’s body to Caracas for testing, from the Paraguana peninsula in western Venezuela, to see whether he was among 12 passengers and two crew members aboard the plane, the government said in a statement yesterday.
The plane crashed after the pilot reported both engines had failed during a scheduled flight to Los Roques from Caracas, a search and rescue spokesman at the Caracas airport, Caleb Castro, said in a telephone interview on January 4.
Eight Italians were among the passengers.
Vessels from the Venezuelan navy and parks service are helping oceanographic survey company Incostas search for the plane by listening for a radio beacon connected to its voice-and- data recorder, state-run Bolivarian News Agency said yesterday.
