Related story: 70 people killed in Peruvian air crash 
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    LIMA, Aug. 23 (Xinhuanet) -- Fifty-two people have survived the air crash of a Peruvian airliner Tuesday, and 48 others have died, the TANS airline company said.

Unidentified relatives of victims of a downed Peruvian airliner arrive at Jorge Chavez airport in Lima, Peru Aug. 23. (AP)

    According to a company spokesman, there were at least 16 foreigners on board.

    Meanwhile, police said that 41 bodies of the victims have been found.

    Earlier, Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo said that at least 70 people had been killed in the crash of the Boeing 737-200 jet in heavy storm near the Amazon city of Pucallpa, with 100 people on board.

    "There were between 20 and 30 survivors" on the jet which was on a flight between the capital Lima and Pucallpa, Toledo was quoted by the local media as saying.

    Toledo said he will do "all it takes to give all the necessary support for those affected by the accident."

    "I am going to closely monitor the rescue operation," he added.

A pedestrian passes in front of the Peruvian TANS airline office in Lima. (AFP)

    Meanwhile, relatives of the victims are arriving at the airport of Pucallpa.

    The victims include children and foreign citizens, survivors ofthe tragedy told the press in the city of Pucallpa.

    A spokesman for the state-run TANS ariline said the Boeing 737-200 plane, which had a capacity of 120 passengers, made an emergency landing without its landing gear in the jungle town of Pucallpa, 785 km northeast of Lima.

    "The plane made an emergency landing but without its landing gear," said a firefighter.

    "The weather was really terrible, there was a fierce storm at the time," said a police officer in Pucallpa.

    TANS, founded in the 1960s by the Peruvian air force to cover remote jungle communities, became a commercial airline in 1998. It has around 30 percent of the local market. Enditem