Rescue bid after air crash survivor’s call is broadcast

THOUSANDS of rescue workers searched the snow-covered mountains of central Turkey yesterday for survivors of a helicopter crash as an injured passenger appealed for help in a television broadcast.

A nationalist party leader was one of six people on board when the aircraft crashed on Wednesday, and Turkish political leaders suspended campaigning for Sunday’s local elections out of respect for him.

Surviving passenger, Ismail Gunes, badly injured and freezing cold, called from the wreckage of the crash.