More Wreckage of Crashed Airplane Handed over to Taiwan

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More Wreckage of Crashed Airplane Handed over to Taiwan

More wreckage from a crashed airplane belonging to the Taiwan-based China Airlines was handed over to Taiwan Thursday in Quanzhou city of southeast China's Fujian province.

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More wreckage from a crashed airplane belonging to the Taiwan-based China Airlines was handed over to Taiwan Thursday in Quanzhou city of southeast China's Fujian province.

About 50 pieces of the airplane retrieved by local fishermen in the sea will be returned to Taiwan by ship. Officials with China Airlines expressed their gratitude for all the assistance providedby the mainland.

On May 25 last year, the China Airlines flight on its way from Taipei to Hong Kong with 225 passengers and crew on board crashed in the waters near the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Straits. No one survived.

Prior to this handover, local fishermen also retrieved 12 bodies of people that died in the air crash as well as 19 pieces of wreckage and 26 identity cards. All have been sent back to Taiwan.

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