Tehran
(AFP) - Iranian rescue teams struggled to recover bodies on Tuesday
from the wreckage of a plane that crashed in hazardous terrain near a
mountain peak two days earlier with 66 people on board.
"Deep
and dangerous crevices in the area of the crash have made it impossible
for helicopters to land," Ghafoor Rastinrooz, director of the regional
medical centre, told official news agency IRNA.
"The bodies must be transferred by hand to the foot of the mountain which will be time-consuming," he said.
Aseman
Airlines flight EP3704 disappeared from radar as it flew over the
Zagros mountain range on Sunday morning, around 45 minutes after taking
off from Tehran on a domestic flight.
After
two days of heavy snow and fog, the weather finally cleared on Tuesday
morning, allowing a helicopter crew to spot a piece of the wreckage with
the company's logo.
A
pilot told state broadcaster IRIB he had seen "scattered bodies around
the plane" and that it was located on one of the Dena mountains at a
height of around 4,000 metres (13,000 feet).
Footage
from the helicopter showed the wreckage almost entirely buried in snow
on a sheer mountain face, while officials warned that bad weather was
expected to return and could last for days.
SOURCE: YAHOO NEWS
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