Plane Carrying Italian Designer Vittorio Missoni Missing After Take-off.
Italian fashion designer Vittorio Missoni is missing after a plane disappeared off the coast of Venezuela. Photograph: Daniel Dal Zennaro/EPA
Rescue crews used boats and aircraft on Saturday to search for a small plane that disappeared in Venezuela, while carrying the chief executive ofItaly's iconic Missoni fashion house and five other people.
Twenty-four hours after the BN-2 Islander aircraft disappeared from radar screens on its short flight from the resort island of Los Roques, no sign of the plane had been found, officials said.
"We have no other news" said Paolo Marchetti, a Missoni SpA official, when asked about the plane that was carrying Vittorio Missoni, the head of the company; his wife, Maurizia Castiglioni; two of their Italian friends; and two Venezuelan crew members. Marchetti spoke briefly to reporters as he left company headquarters in the northern Italian town of Sumirago on Saturday afternoon.
Missoni's younger brother, Luca, who is active in the family-run business, was reportedly traveling to Venezuela on Saturday to monitor search efforts.
The newspaper La Repubbica said Venezuelan aircraft, motorboats and helicopters had taken off at dawn Saturday to resume the search for the missing plane, which had been suspended on Friday night. The Italian news agency ANSA, reporting from Rome, said a specialized ocean-searching naval vessel also was being deployed.
Vittorio Missoni is the eldest son of the company's founder, Ottavio, who at 91 still follows the business. The Corriere della Sera newspaper reported that Ottavio and his wife, Rosita, were at their home in Italy, along with their daughter Angela, a chief fashion designer with the company, waiting for information about the search. Rosita Missoni designs housewears and Angela's daughter, Margherita, has been infusing the classic designs with fresh appeal.
The Missoni house, with its trademark zigzag and other geometric patterns in sweaters, scarves and other knitwear, is one of Italy's most famous fashion brands abroad. Vittorio Missoni has played a key role in marketing the Missoni family creations in Asia, especially in Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea as general director of marketing for Missoni SpA. He also spearheaded a push for the company's products in the United States and France. His efforts to expand the brand abroad led him to be dubbed the company's "ambassador".
On Friday, Venezuela's interior minister, Nestor Reverol, said the plane had been declared missing hours after taking off from Los Roques, a string of islands popular for scuba diving, white beaches and coral reefs, where the Missonis and their friends were on vacation.
Twenty-four hours after the BN-2 Islander aircraft disappeared from radar screens on its short flight from the resort island of Los Roques, no sign of the plane had been found, officials said.
"We have no other news" said Paolo Marchetti, a Missoni SpA official, when asked about the plane that was carrying Vittorio Missoni, the head of the company; his wife, Maurizia Castiglioni; two of their Italian friends; and two Venezuelan crew members. Marchetti spoke briefly to reporters as he left company headquarters in the northern Italian town of Sumirago on Saturday afternoon.
Missoni's younger brother, Luca, who is active in the family-run business, was reportedly traveling to Venezuela on Saturday to monitor search efforts.
The newspaper La Repubbica said Venezuelan aircraft, motorboats and helicopters had taken off at dawn Saturday to resume the search for the missing plane, which had been suspended on Friday night. The Italian news agency ANSA, reporting from Rome, said a specialized ocean-searching naval vessel also was being deployed.
Vittorio Missoni is the eldest son of the company's founder, Ottavio, who at 91 still follows the business. The Corriere della Sera newspaper reported that Ottavio and his wife, Rosita, were at their home in Italy, along with their daughter Angela, a chief fashion designer with the company, waiting for information about the search. Rosita Missoni designs housewears and Angela's daughter, Margherita, has been infusing the classic designs with fresh appeal.
The Missoni house, with its trademark zigzag and other geometric patterns in sweaters, scarves and other knitwear, is one of Italy's most famous fashion brands abroad. Vittorio Missoni has played a key role in marketing the Missoni family creations in Asia, especially in Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea as general director of marketing for Missoni SpA. He also spearheaded a push for the company's products in the United States and France. His efforts to expand the brand abroad led him to be dubbed the company's "ambassador".
On Friday, Venezuela's interior minister, Nestor Reverol, said the plane had been declared missing hours after taking off from Los Roques, a string of islands popular for scuba diving, white beaches and coral reefs, where the Missonis and their friends were on vacation.
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