Workers comb field for clues to plane crash

MOSCOW — Wading through knee-deep snow, hundreds of emergency workers searched a field near Moscow, Monday, for remains of the 71 victims from the crash of a Russian airliner, and aviation experts began deciphering the jet’s flight recorders.

Investigators quickly ruled out a terrorist attack in Sunday’s crash of the An-148 regional jet bound for Orsk in the southern Urals. The air disaster has reignited questions about the twin-engine plane that was developed jointly by Russia and Ukraine but phased out amid the political crisis between them.

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