Hundreds of scavengers swarmed over the wreckage of a Peruvian airliner early today, potentially undermining the work of investigators en route to the crash that left at least 37 dead.

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.