Fourteen killed as plane slams into mountain

Three generations of an American family were wiped out when a chartered aircraft carrying them to a game reserve crashed into Mount Kenya, killing all 12 tourists and the two South African pilots.

The twin-engine Fairchild turboprop hit Point Lenana, the third-highest peak on Africa’s second-highest mountain, as a cloudy sky was beginning to clear just before sunset on Saturday, said Bongo Woodley, senior Kenya Wildlife Service warden in charge of Mount Kenya National Park.