1 | Morocco took over the mineral-rich Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony, in 1979. | |
2 | Guelmim is more than 373 miles southwest of the capital, Rabat, just north of the Western Sahara. | |
3 | The plane was preparing to land at Guelmim military air base in southern Morocco, near the disputed Western Sahara. | |
4 | The Moroccan army says 78 people were killed when a military transport plane crashed into a mountain in the south of the country, just north of the disputed Western Sahara territory. |