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Thirty-six Survive Venezuela Jet Crash

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While 15 passengers were killed.

A plane from the Venezuelan state-run airline Conviasa crashed shortly after takeoff in Venezuela Monday. Fifty-one people were on board and officials said that 36 survived while 15 passengers were killed. The turboprop aircraft crashed over a state-run steel foundry, according to Venezuelan's Transportation Minister Francisco Garces.

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