Trudging through knee-deep mud in a hail storm, at least 58 survivors managed to escape a flaming Peruvian airliner that splintered as it crash-landed in the Amazon jungle, killing 37 people.

Rescuers scoured an Amazon jungle marsh today, searching for more bodies as they sifted through the wreckage of a Peruvian airliner that crashed while making an emergency landing in a hailstorm, killing at least 41 people.

An airliner carrying 100 people crashed near a Peruvian jungle town while attempting an emergency landing in a storm, killing 41 people.

Up to 60 people are feared dead after an airliner carrying 100 people crashed near a Peruvian jungle town as it was attempting an emergency landing.

AIR traffic controllers last night lost contact with a Tans Peru plane carrying 42 passengers plus four crew as it approached a small mountain airport in a northern Peruvian jungle.