All Baotou air crash victims' bodies claimed

Family members claimed the remaining five victims' bodies of the Nov. 21 air crash in Baotou, a city in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Saturday, 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.

A 50-seat branch-line CRJ-200 jet, with 47 passengers and six crew members on board, crashed into a lake in the park at 8:20 a.m. shortly after it took off November 21. No one aboard survived and two people on land were killed by the accident.

Compensation standard set

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 17,000 US dollars) 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.

Source: Xinhua