24 Of 33 people on board perished have come on the Saturday night probably Zurich (AP) — when the crash of an airliner in close to the Airport Zürich-Kloten. Until Sunday afternoon, helpers found ten bodies in the debris of the wreck, nine people could be rescued injured. “For us the search and rescue operations are completed,” said a spokesman for the police. The fate of the 14 missing people is still uncertain. There was also US singer Melanie Thornton on board, as their record company of X-cell records confirmed in Berlin of the dpa. It was initially uncertain whether she survived the crash. Also the Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem is on the passenger. According to assumptions of the police, 14 still missing passengers of the downed Crossair machine are dead. It is believed that some of the missing in the crash are burned, said Hans Baltensberger, head of information of the cantonal police of Zurich. Others may lie between the scattered debris parts of the crashed aircraft. The crash area, where aircraft debris, bodies and parts are located, is about the size of a football field according to Baltensberger. Why the aircraft of the type of “Its” crashed less than two kilometers from the runway in a wooded area, broke up and caught fire, it is still unclear. However, it is clear that the machine flew too low. She may be brushed the treetops with a wing. At the crash site she should have still a height of over 300 M. Experts figured in television, that local snow showers have caused poor Visual conditions. It is the second crash of a Crossair-machine within two years. (aa)