All 53 people aboard a missing DC-9 jetliner were killed when the plane struck a mountainside in heavy fog near Lake Maracaibo, Venezuelan government officials said.

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President Carlos Andres Perez said Wednesday that the plane, owned by the state airline Aeropostal, disappeared Tuesday during a routine flight and was discovered early the next day by a rural farmer.

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