By The Associated PressThe search resumed Saturday for a small plane that has disappeared off the Venezuelan coast with six people aboard, including Vittorio Missoni, a top executive in Italy's Missoni fashion house, officials said.(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/130105-missoni-vsml-10a.380;380;7;70;0.jpg)Daniel Dal Zennaro / EPA fileItalian fashion executive Vittorio Missoni, son of Italian fashion designer Ottavio Missoni, is missing after a plane disappeared off the coast of Venezuela.Missoni, 58, is the director general of the iconic brand and the eldest son of the company's founder. Flying with him on Friday's flight from Venezuela's Los Roques resort archipelago to Caracas, was Missoni's wife, Maurizia Castiglioni, two Italian friends of the couple, and a crew of two Venezuelans.
Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper reported that family patriarch Ottavio Missoni, 91, and his wife, Rosita, were at their home in Italy, along with their daughter, Angela, the chief fashion designer and sister of Vittorio Missoni, waiting for information about the search. Italian news reports said the third Missoni sibling, Luca, had flown to Venezuela.
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