Missoni fashion house executive missing after plane disappeared

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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.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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