Two bodies recovered from cargo jet crash in Texas

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News ID: 35909
Publish Date: 10:05 - 25 February 2019
TEHRAN, Feb 25 - Two bodies have been recovered from the wreckage of an Amazon Prime Air cargo plane, an Atlas Air Inc. cargo jet, that nosedived into a bay outside Houston on Saturday, and a search was ongoing for a third victim, authorities said.

Two bodies recovered from cargo jet crash in Texas

TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - All three people aboard the Boeing 767 cargo jetliner operated by Atlas Air Worldwide died in the crash as it approached Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Atlas and Boeing Co said in statements on Sunday.

Chambers County Sheriff Brian Hawthorne told a news conference on Sunday that two bodies had been recovered and the search continued for the third person as well as the plane’s black boxes.

The plane crashed at the north end of Trinity Bay near the small city of Anahuac, about 20 miles (32 km) southeast of the airport around 12.40 p.m. (1340 EST) after taking off from Miami.

Source: Reuters

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