Every victim of an air crash in north China will get 211,000
yuan (about US$25,000) of compensation from the airline, the
operation company said Saturday.
The flight operator China Eastern Airlines said taking into
account of the change of the consumer price index, it will double
the law-set compensation standards for passenger death to 140,000
yuan (about US$17,000) and luggage losses to 2,000 or 4,000 yuan
respectively.
The rest part of the compensation will be the solatium, said the
company.
Last Sunday, a 50-seat short-haul jet CRJ-200, with 47
passengers and six crew members aboard, left Baotou in Inner
Mongolia Autonomous Region for east China metropolis Shanghai at
8:21 a.m., but crashed into the lake of Nanhai Park in Baotou City
shortly after it took off.
Black boxes decoded, cause still
unclear
Experts have decoded the contents of the recorders, known as
"black box," of a crashed passenger aircraft, but the cause of the
accident is still unclear, said Xu Li, spokesman for a State
Council investigation team, Saturday.
The recorders, which were found on the crash site on Nov. 24,
were immediately sent to Beijing for decoding. Experts from China,
the United States and Canada are now studying the data and
information acquired from the "black box."
A Canadian-made Bombardier CRJ200 crashed into a park lake in
the suburb of Baotou in north China's Inner
Mongolia Autonomous Region, one minute after it took off
towards the east China metropolis Shanghai, killing 53 people
aboard and two on the ground.
So far, more than 90 percent of the remains of the plane have
been recovered and most parts of it have been badly damaged,
according to the experts.
Victims' bodies claimed
Family members claimed the remaining five victims' bodies of the
Nov. 21 air crash in Baotou, said an official with the
investigation team.
The official said all 55 bodies have been claimed by their
family members. The corpuses were identified by DNA testing.
The investigation team will try to fulfill the requirements
raised by family on beautification of the remains before
cremation.
Body cremated
The body of Chen Suyang, a victim of the air crash six days ago,
was cremated Saturday morning in the funeral home in Baotou.
It's the first body of victims being cremated, said an official
with the funeral home. Chen was an employee of the Shanghai Fudan
Fuhua Scientific and Technological Shareholding Company. Before the
cremation, people paid their last respects to the remains of the
deceased.
Bodies of other victims will be cremated subsequently after body
recognition by their relatives.
The 50-seat branch-line jet CRJ-200, with 47 passengers and six
crew members aboard crashed into a giant lake of Nanhai Park in
Baotou on November 21, killing all people on board and another two
persons on ground.
(Xinhua News Agency November 28, 2004)