Debris and human remains from the Russia plane crash were spread over a radius of one kilometre around the crash site. Photo: APMoscow: Emergency workers in Russia searched snow-covered fields outside Moscow on Monday, looking for body fragments and clues after a fatal plane crash a day earlier killed all 71 people on board. Experts plan to study the plane’s two flight recorders, which were recovered, as well as plane fragments. MourningOfficials from Russia’s emergency situations ministry told a meeting broadcast on state TV on Monday that DNA tests were being organised with the relatives of those killed to try to identify body fragments. It said the plane involved in the crash had undergone thorough checks last month and that it had successfully flown several other routes on the same day as the crash.

Source: Mint February 12, 2018 14:26 UTC