A Venezuelan plane crashed Monday on a domestic holiday flight killing at least 14 people, but most of the 51 people on board survived the crash, officials said. "A total of 33 people are being cared for at different clinics," said Francisco Rangel Gomez, governor of Bolivar state, where the accident occurred.
"We have 14 bodies that are being identified and we are searching for four people" in the wreckage of the aircraft, he added. The Conviasa Airline plane was en route to the resort city of Isla Margarita when it went down about six miles (10 kilometers) from Puerto Ordaz, carrying 47 passengers and four crew. Gomez earlier told reporters the plane's crew had been in contact with a control tower before the accident, which he said was apparently caused by "loss of control" of the plane.