38 die as plane hits hillside

Rabat - A Spanish passenger plane carrying 38 people slammed into a hillside near Morocco's Mediterranean coast yesterday, killing…

Rabat - A Spanish passenger plane carrying 38 people slammed into a hillside near Morocco's Mediterranean coast yesterday, killing all on board.

The plane, a Paukn Air flight from the southern Spanish city of Malaga, went down while it was preparing to land in Spain's North African enclave of Melilla.

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