Bodies found after UN aid plane crash

A United Nations official says 16 bodies and a black box have been recovered from the wreckage of a humanitarian aid plane that crashed in Congo.

A United Nations official says 16 bodies and a black box have been recovered from the wreckage of a humanitarian aid plane that crashed in Congo.

There were 17 people on board the flight that went down on Monday as it was trying to land at an airstrip in the eastern Congo town of Bukavu. Its wreckage was spotted on Tuesday on a ridge 9 miles away.

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