Missoni scion on plane missing in Venezuela Associated Press Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 3:01 pm, Saturday, January 5, 2013 CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Rescue crews used boats and aircraft on Saturday to search for a small plane that disappeared off Venezuela carrying the CEO of Italy's iconic Missoni fashion house and five other people. [...] more than a day after the BN-2 Islander aircraft disappeared from radar screens on its short flight from Venezuela's coastal resort islands of Los Roques to Caracas, no sign of the plane had been found, officials said. "[...] we can see the wreckage" hope will remain, Scalvenzi told Italian state TV on Saturday night. The civil aviation agency said the authorities declared an alert after the plane didn't make contact with the control tower at the Caracas airport or with the tower in Los Roques. The Italian newspaper La Repubblica reported that Venezuelan aircraft, boats and helicopters took off at dawn Saturday to resume the search for the missing plane, which had been suspended on Friday night. Venezuelan Interior Minister Nestor Reverol announced that the plane was missing hours after it took off from Los Roques, a string of islands popular for scuba diving, white beaches and coral reefs, and where the Missonis and their friends were on vacation.