FOUND: Missoni's BN2 Islander, according to Venezuela govt..

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The Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander aircraft YV-2615, which was reported missing on January 4, 2013, is pictured in this undated handout photo.

http://news.yahoo.com/authorities-check ... 47334.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/ ... 7W20130222

ROME | Fri Feb 22, 2013 2:57am EST

ROME (Reuters) - Authorities are checking if a wreck found on a beach of the island of Curacao could be that of a plane carrying fashion executive Vittorio Missoni which disappeared last month, Italian news wire Ansa reported on Friday, citing local sources.

Missoni, the eldest son of the founders of the Missoni fashion house, disappeared with his wife and four others when their plane went missing off the coast of Venezuela in early January.

Italian investigators later said the airline that owned the plane was not fully licensed to operate and that the pilot's license had expired more than a month before the flight.

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CARACAS | Thu Jun 27, 2013 4:07pm BST

Venezuela said on Thursday it had found the crashed plane of Italian fashion executive Vittorio Missoni that went missing after taking off from the Los Roques archipelago in the Caribbean six months ago.

The plane that crashed on January 4 has appeared," Interior Minister spokesman Jorge Galindo said, confirming later to Reuters that it was Missoni's plane.

Galindo gave no more details of the location or condition of the plane.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/06/2 ... UN20130627 has more.

http://runway.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06 ... ound/?_r=0

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... zuela.html

Less than a week ago, while searching for the wreckage, a ship discovered another aircraft (that Let L-410 Turbolet...) that went missing in 2008. That jet coincidentally disappeared on the same date the Missoni plane went off the radar.