Experts work to identify dead in airline crash

FORENSIC experts worked yesterday to identify the dead in a Turkish Airlines crash that killed nine in the Netherlands, while investigators mapped the exact location of each piece of mangled debris in search of the cause of the crash.

As investigators swarmed the crash site yesterday, the plane’s flight data and cockpit voice recordings were being analysed in Paris.

Sandra Groenendal, spokeswoman for the Dutch Safety Authority, said a first assessment of what went wrong, according to black box data, would probably be released by Wednesday.