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Investigators Hunt for Clues to Thursday Plane Crash
Friday, October 5, 2001
(09:57)
Reuters

"Neither the direction nor the range (of the missiles) correspond to the practical or theoretical point at which the plane exploded. So the Ukrainian military has no involvement, either practical or theoretical, in this accident."

Text: Reuters
Rescue workers searched on Friday for the bodies of up to 78 people who were aboard an airliner flying from Israel to Russia when it exploded and plunged into the Black Sea, while experts hunted for clues to the cause.

An Emergency Ministry spokesman in Moscow said 11 ships were involved in search operation at the crash area 185 km (115 miles) southwest of Russia's resort of Sochi. He said the bodies of 11 men and two women had been recovered by 0400 GMT.

Interfax quoted a senior official from the ministry's North Caucasus branch as saying the cockpit of Tupolev-154 and a segment of a cabin had been recovered. The bodies and the findings were being taken ashore.
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