Three Israelis are thought to be among those killed when a Swiss airliner crashed on its approach to Zurich airport late Saturday after a flight from Berlin, reported Haaretz newspaper.
The three have been identified as Yaakov Mansur, head of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Faculty of Medicine; Amiram Eldor, a physician at Tel Aviv's Ichilov Hospital; and Avishai Barkman, a Tel Aviv municipal official.
Citing information from the Israeli Foreign Ministry, the Tel Aviv-based paper said three Israelis were returning from a conference in Berlin.
The Israeli consulate in Zurich is dealing with the final identification of the bodies.
At least 10 people were killed and nine were injured when the plane operated by the Swiss company Crossair with 33 people on board crashed near Zurich airport, police were quoted by AFP as saying.
Rescuers said the chances of finding any of the remaining 14 who were on the plane alive were very slim.
The Jumbolino aircraft, on a flight from Berlin, went down for unknown reasons in a forest in the Birchwill area at around 2100 GMT as it was making its approach to land at Zurich airport.
Rescuers said they had found 10 bodies and recovered nine injured survivors, three of them in critical condition. They expected to find more bodies near the burnt-out wreckage of the aircraft, which had caught fire on impact.
Company spokeswoman Diane Muller was quoted by the agency as saying that flight LX3597 from Berlin-Tegel was carrying 28 passengers and five crew. She said weather conditions were normal for the time of year with sleet falling on the airport.
The plane flattened trees for a distance of several metres (yards) before hitting the ground and breaking up into several pieces. Witnesses said the cockpit and rear of the 80-seater four-engine aircraft remained largely intact – Albawaba.com
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