HOPES are fading for the Italian fashion house owner of Edinburgh's luxury Missoni hotel after his tourist plane vanished off the Venezuelan coast.
Vittorio Missoni, 58, wife Maurizia, two friends, and two Venezuelan crew were still missing last night more than two days after contact was lost off the resort island of Los Roques.
The Milan-based businessman, who owns the five-star boutique hotel Hotel Missoni, named after the designer label, on the Royal Mile, had been heading back to Caracas from a holiday aboard the BN-2 Islander aircraft.
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