Rescue crews are using boats and aircraft to search for a small plane that disappeared off Venezuela carrying the boss of Italy's iconic Missoni fashion house.
The BN-2 Islander aircraft disappeared from radar screens on its short flight from the Venezuelan resort islands of Los Roques to Caracas.
"We have no other news", said Paolo Marchetti from Missoni.
The plane was carrying carrying 58-year-old Vittorio Missoni, the head of the company; his wife, Maurizia Castiglioni; two of their Italian friends; and two Venezuelan crew members.
Missoni's younger brother, Luca, who is active in the family-run business, was reportedly travelling to Venezuela to monitor search efforts.
"We're holding onto a glimmer of hope," said Oswaldo Scalvenzi , a relative of Elda Scalvenzi, one of the Missoni friends aboard the flight.
"Until we can see the wreckage, hope will remain," Scalvenzi told Italian state TV on Saturday night.
Search teams were using a plane and a helicopter, working together with the Venezuelan coast guard, the country's National Civil Aviation Institute said in a statement.
The twin-engine plane had enough fuel on board for a three-hour flight, said Francisco Paz Fleitas, president of the civil aviation agency.
Paz said the plane took off at 11.39am on Friday and had been expected to arrive at Caracas' Simon Bolivar International Airport 42 minutes later.
The civil aviation agency said the authorities declared an alert after the plane did not make contact with the control tower at the Caracas airport or with the tower in Los Roques.
"The last position registered in radar data and those supplied by a system on board the aircraft" was about 11 miles south of Los Roques, the agency said in the statement.
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