Cameroon ? Recovery teams in a dense mangrove swamp where a Kenya Airways jet crashed and killed all 114 people aboard pressed ahead with their grim, muddy job after failing in a bid Tuesday to pump water away from the wreckage.

Friends and relatives of the victims, who included at least one American, were allowed briefly at the site before authorities barred access in order to preserve evidence.

Rain complicated the recovery of bodies from the Boeing 737-800, submerged in murky waters just three miles from the end of the runway where it took off on a flight from the Cameroonian city of Douala to Nairobi.