Engine failure behind Ukrainian plane crash in Morocco

Ukraine said Tuesday that an engine failure could be behind the crash last week of a Ukrainian cargo plane in the mountains of southern Morocco in which all eight crew members were killed.

Serguei Borodenko, head of the press service at the Ukrainian foreign department was quoted by a Russian news agency as saying that the break down of one of the engines of the Russian-built Antonov cargo might be behind the jet's crash.

Inhabitants in the Moroccan mountain areas said they heard a change in the plane' engines noise before the crash, the official said.

The cargo plane crashed at 9,900 feet in the Atlas Mountains not long after leaving the coastal city of Agadir, where it made a technical stop-over.