Venezuela investigates cause of fatal plane crash: Chavez

Investigators in Venezuela are working to find out why a plane crashed into a mountain face shortly after take-off this week, killing all 46 people on board, President Hugo Chavez said Friday. The wreckage of the twin-prop ATR-42 aircraft was found early Friday just 10 kilometers (six miles) from the airport of Merida, a town in the western Andes region that was its point of departure. It went down just before sunset Thursday, minutes after leaving for the capital Caracas, 500 kilometers (300 miles) away.