The bodies of 33 victims in Baghdad plane crash were brought back to southern Turkey on Wednesday evening by a special plane, local newspaper Zaman (Times) reported.

 

According to the report, the special plane carrying the bodies of 28 Turkish workers and 5 crew landed on Adana Airport in souther Turkey at local time 19:48 (GMT 17:46).

 

Another body of an American Paul Kenton Johnson was not among the returned bodies, said the report, adding a seriously wounded person Turk Abdulkadir Akyuz was also not brought back by the plane.

 

Earlier in the morning, a 11-member delegation from the Turkish Civilian Aviation Directorate General and the victims' company Kulak Construction took the special plane from Adana for Baghdad to get the remains of the 33 victims.

 

A Moldova-flagged Antonov-26 plane, which took off from Adana, crashed on Tuesday as it was trying to land at Baghdad's Alasad Airport, killing 34 people and seriously injuring one person.

 

The plane was carrying five crew members and 30 passengers, including one American national and 29 Turks, most of them workers from the Kulak Construction company.

 

(Xinhua News Agency January 11, 2007)