IRKUTSK, July 9 (RIA Novosti) - Rescuers have recovered 124 bodies, and 71 people, including six children and three crew, are being treated in the hospital after an airliner crashed in Siberia Sunday, the local prosecutor's office said.
The Airbus 310-300, owned by Novosibirsk-based S7, formerly Sibir, was making a routine flight from Moscow to the city of Irkutsk, about 3,000 miles east of the capital and the home airport for popular tourist destination Lake Baikal.
But disaster struck flight 788 at 7:44 a.m. local time (10:44 p.m. Saturday GMT) and its 200 passengers and crew, when the airliner veered off the runway on landing and burst into flames after hitting a concrete wall.
