RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 3: Searchers have found about 50 bodies scattered around the Amazon site of Brazil’s worst airplane crash and were keeping wild animals away from the corpses, air force officials said on Tuesday.

Two US pilots were being questioned in an investigation to find out how their smaller jet collided with a passenger plane. The executive jet landed safely but all 155 people on Boeing 737-800 died in Friday’s crash.

“Parts of the plane and many bodies are scattered over an area of some 20 square kilometres in the forest and searchers have to scare away wild animals, especially at night, by burning large fires,” an air force spokesman said.—Reuters