Rain hampers Pakistan plane-crash recovery effort

Emergency teams battled heavy rain and mud today to recover bodies strewn over hills overlooking the Pakistani capital after the country’s worst plane crash.

Authorities speculated that monsoon weather may have been a factor in the crash of the Airblue flight from Karachi to Islamabad yesterday. The plane was apparently off course when it slammed into the Margalla Hills, killing all 152 people on board.