Mainland Ships Retrieve Six Pieces of Crashed Plane

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Mainland Ships Retrieve Six Pieces of Crashed Plane

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Rescue ships sent by China's Ministry of Communications to aid rescue work of the crashed Taiwan China Airlines passenger plane have salvaged six pieces of wreckage in the Taiwan Strait by Monday evening.

Meanwhile, a mainland fishing boat retrieved a dead body from the air crash Monday morning and handed it to a patrol ship of Taiwan. This was the only dead body recovered in Monday's rescue and salvage operations.

Three relatives of a mainland victim from Fujian Province had arrived at Taipei's Taoyuan airport by 7:00 p.m. Another seven left Guilin Monday night for Taipei via Hong Kong.

A total of 35 family members of the mainland victims are expected to fly to Taiwan.

A passenger plane of Taiwan-based China Airlines crashed into the sea off the island county of Penghu soon after taking off from the international airport in Taoyuan Saturday afternoon. Some 225 people were on board, including nine from the mainland.

Taiwan's aviation safety authorities said Monday that the cause of the disaster is still unclear.

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