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/ 23 August 2006

Russian plane crash: Grim search for bodies, clues

Investigators recovered flight recorders from the charred wreckage of a Russian airliner on Wednesday as grief-stricken families prepared to travel to the site to identify remains. Relatives of the 170 victims, who included 45 children under 12, are due to fly out from Pulkovo airport in St Petersburg to the scene of the crash, 45km north of the Ukrainian city of Donetsk.