RUSSIA: IRKUTSK: ANTONOV 124 MILITARY AIRCRAFT CRASH UPDATE (2)

Russian/Nat Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin has visited the scene of one of the country’s worst air crashes, promising aid to families of the victims and praising the work of rescue teams. Rescue workers are braving sub-zero temperatures as they search for victims of the military cargo plane crash in Siberia. So far, 42 bodies had been recovered on Sunday from the massive heap of smouldering rubble left behind when the plane ploughed into a residential neighborhood on Saturday in th