At least 10 people were killed and 14 injured when their Tunisair charter flight crashed into the sea near Sicily on Saturday after reporting a technical fault, emergency services said. The chief magistrate on the island off Italy's southern tip put the death toll at 14 and said five people were missing. The pilot of the plane, an ATR 72 carrying 39 people to Tunisia, made a distress call to Palermo airport at 3:24 p.m. (1324 GMT), requesting to make an emergency landing, Italy's civil aviation authority told Reuters. The plane landed about 12 miles (19 km) out at sea at 3:40 and shortly afterwards survivors were seen on the wings of the floating plane.
