Panama Plane With 10 Aboard Missing PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) -- A small plane with 10 people aboard was missing on a flight near the Panama-Colombia border, authorities said Friday.

The spokesman for Panama's Civil Aeronautics Directorate, Victor de la Hoz, said the plane left an airport in Panama City Friday morning on a flight to Puerto Obaldia, about 180 miles away. He said the plane was four hours overdue.

He said searchers from his agency and from the civil defense agency were searching for the plane, which is owned by the Aero Perlas company.

Two crew members and eight passengers, including four children, were aboard, he said.

''The plane disappeared and we have not had contact with the pilot of the craft,'' he said.

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