TOURIST PLANE VANISHES

A charter plane carrying 13 people to a tourist site in Papua New Guinea vanished on approach to an airport near the country's Kokoda Track, a mountainous 60-mile trail. The twin-engine plane had left from the capital of Port Moresby. The flight crew radioed air traffic controllers as they approached the airstrip, but the aircraft never landed. Searchers were checking other small airstrips in the area to see if it may have landed elsewhere, but poor weather conditions were hampering searchers' efforts. .