The commercial airliner with 46 people aboard reported missing last night in western Venezuela was found today. Unfortunately, there seems to be no survivors.

“The impact was direct. The aircraft is practically pulverized,” Firefighter Sgt. Jhonny Paz told the Venezuelan television station Globovision, the Associated Press reported.

He also added that officials would send a helicopter back to the site of the crash after a refueling stop.

The two-engine aircraft, owned by Venezuelan airline Santa Barbara, disappeared from radar at 5:30 p.m., yesterday, half an hour after taking off from the Merida airport in western Venezuela. The plane was destined for Simon Bolivar International Airport, near Caracas, Gen. Antonio Rivero, Venezuela’s emergency management director said, according to the Associated Press. It was supposed to have been an-hour-and-45-minutes flight, but it never reached its destination.

Venezuelan officials have no words on what might have caused the airplane’s crash. The weather was normal for Merida on Thursday, with fog only at higher elevations, Lt. Luis Uzcategui of the Merida fire department said.

It is not the first time when a plane crashes in the remote Andean mountain state of Merida, near the Colombian border. Three years ago, 160 people aboard a Colombian airliner died, after the pilot reported both engines had failed.