The Russian relatives of those killed in Monday night's mid-air collision are flying to Germany to visit the crash site and help with the identification of the victims. Seventy-one people, many of them children from the Russian republic of Bashkortostan, were killed when the Tupolev passenger jet collided with a Boeing cargo plane. Crash investigators have asked the parents of the 45 children and teenagers killed to bring with them their children's dental records or other items to aid DNA identification. The cause of the crash remains unclear but questions are being asked about Swiss air traffic control procedures after revelations that some equipment was switched off at the time of the crash and that one air traffic controller was on an unscheduled break. Salvage crews have so far recovered 38 bodies and carried out post-mortem examinations on 24 of them, police said.

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