The Shanghai-based Pacific Life Insurance Co. Ltd., announced Monday that
it would grant a total of 900,000 yuan (108,696 US dollars) for the six crew
members killed in the air crash in northwest China's Baotou.
The Pacific Life Insurance Co. Ltd said the crew members took out a
collective insurance policy with the company.
The three pilots received a compensation of 200,000 yuan each, two stewards
and one bodyguard for 100,000 each, according to the company, adding that the
compensation has been given to the victims' family Monday morning.
Wang Guoliang, board chairman of the Pacific Life Assurance Co.Ltd., said the
company has opened a telephone hotline numbered 95500 and will compensate for
any passenger killed in the air crash as long as he/she is confirmed as the
client of the company.
A 50-seat branch-line jet CRJ-200, with 47 passengers and six crew members
aboard, crashed shortly after take-off en route from Baotou, Inner Mongolia
Autonomous Region, to Shanghai, about 8 a.m.Sunday. The flight was operated by
the Yunnan Branch Co., a unit of China Eastern Airlines.
All of the people aboard and a man on the ground were killed. The remains of
54 victims have been found.
Huang Yi, a senior official with the State Administration of Work Safety,
said cause of the air crash was under tense investigation.
