23 saved after plane crashes in Mediterranean
Airliner with 38 aboard goes down in sea near Sicily

ROME, Italy (CNN) -- Rescuers have saved at least 23 of the 38 people on board a small plane that went down Saturday in the waters off Sicily, Italian officials said.
"Some people were on the wing, screaming, yelling for help," said Filippo Morgante, an official at Palermo fire department operations center, The Associated Press reported.
"Others were on the fuselage, and some were trapped inside the plane," Morgante said by telephone. "Some weren't wearing life jackets. Maybe they didn't have the time to put them on."
Doctors in Palermo said the pilot was among the survivors.
Thirteen people have been confirmed dead, and another two are missing, said port authorities in Palermo, a city on the northwestern tip of Sicily.
Most of the passengers are believed to be Italians traveling during the height of the holiday season.
Relatives of the victims were being flown from Bari to Palermo by charter plane, and were expected to arrive overnight.
The ATR-72 aircraft was 19 miles (31 kilometers) north of Palermo when it went down . (Map)
The twin-engine, propeller-driven aircraft was operated by Tuninter, a subsidiary of TunisAir.
The plane had reported an engine problem around 3:20 p.m. (9:20 a.m. ET) and tried to make an emergency landing at Palermo's airport, but it went into the sea 20 minutes later, according to Italian air traffic control officials.
Officials have ruled out terrorism. Palermo's chief prosecutor said the cockpit had radioed Punta Raisi, the Palermo airport, about a crash-landing.
According to Italian aviation authorities, Saturday's crash is the deadliest aviation disaster in Italy since October 2001, when a plane struck a warehouse at the Milan airport killing 118 people.
The Tuninter aircraft was headed from Bari in southeastern Italy to the Tunisian island of Djerba, a popular destination for European tourists.
Italian aviation authorities said the plane had been inspected four times in the past year, mostly recently in March, and no problems were detected.
CNN's Alessio Vinci, Hada Messia and Houda ben Othman contributed to this report.