Toll in Crash Revised; Crews Search for Bodies
From Times Wire Reports
Several hundred police and volunteers searched a swamp for remaining bodies from a jet that crashed in Peru’s northern jungle.
State-run TANS Peru airline, whose Boeing 737 crashed in heavy storms Tuesday, revised the death toll to 40 instead of 41 and said 58 people had survived, one fewer than earlier stated. It said 98 were aboard, not 100 as it initially said.
Most aboard were Peruvian, but 18 were foreigners, including 11 U.S. citizens. An airline official said an American man and woman were among the dead.
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