Crater at Plane Crash Site to Be Excavated
From Times Wire Reports
Recovery teams gathered human body parts in plastic bags and prepared to excavate a smoldering crater left by a Nigerian passenger plane that crashed Saturday, killing all 117 people aboard.
Investigators say the Boeing 737 nose-dived into a marsh north of Lagos and that most of the fuselage and corpses were buried at the impact site. The voice and flight data recorders had not been recovered.
Relatives picked over the wreckage for evidence of their loved ones.
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