Officials Lower Dutch Plane Crash Death Toll to 80
Officials lowered the death toll in the El Al plane crash to 80 from 120 Saturday after others thought to have been killed called a missing-persons hot line, Dutch authorities said.
Search parties recovered sections of the jet engine believed to have triggered the crash last Sunday, the Transport Ministry said.
An engine caught fire minutes after takeoff, and the Boeing 747-200 cargo plane smashed into an apartment complex.
Authorities initially believed that 250 people were killed in the inferno.
But they lowered the number to 120 Friday and issued a list in hopes of reaching anyone who was incorrectly listed.
Rescuers have recovered the remains of 51 bodies from the rubble of the apartment complex.
But many more are believed to have died without a trace.
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