Missing aircraft carrying Vittorio Missoni found off Venezuela after 6 months

CARACAS, VENEZUELA (BNO NEWS) -- The missing aircraft carrying Italian fashion director Vittorio Missoni was found off Venezuela on Thursday, six months after it went missing, officials said.

Venezuelan Interior Ministry spokesperson, Jorge Galindo, on Thursday announced that the small BN-2 Islander aircraft was located around three nautical miles north of Key Carenero

The aircraft was carrying Missoni, his wife, Maurizia Castiglioni, along with friends Elda Scalvenzi and Guido Foresti, as well as the plane's crew, pilot Germán Marchant and copilot Juan Carlos Ferrer. It was traveling from the archipelago resort area of Los Roques to Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, when it went missing on January 4.

Reports indicate the aircraft was located around 230 feet under water. Three weeks after it went missing, a bag from the plane washed up on the the Dutch island of Curacao, over 100 miles away from the plane's last known location.

In a statement, the Missoni family thanked both Venezuelan and Italian authorities, expressing faith in the incident's investigations. Vittorio Missoni had been operating the fashion house known for its colorful knitwear designs as the Marketing Director, alongside his two siblings, Luca and Angela.

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