Posted AT 1:48 PM EDT on 06/08/05
Jet crashes off coast of Sicily
Rome — A Tunisian passenger plane crash-landed into the Mediterranean Sea Saturday off the Sicilian coast on a flight from Bari, Italy, to Djerba, Tunisia, killing 19 people, a Palermo official said. Twenty people survived.
Palermo Prosecutor Piero Grasso told The Associated Press that 20 people survived and were being taken off rescue boats on stretchers at Palermo's port.
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