FIREFIGHTERS have retrieved 34 charred bodies from the wreckage of an Antonov-24 aircraft that crashed shortly after takeoff just outside Luanda amid confusion over how many people were actually on board. The Angolan air force had earlier reported that 40 people had died in the crash, while a correspondent for the Portuguese news agency Lusa reported that one person on the ground had also died. The plane, chartered by the private company Asa Pesada, had spun out of control on takeoff. It crashed in flames in an uninhabited area known as Terra Vermelha – Red Earth – near a refugee camp just south of the capital, the air force said.