Fifty-four people have been confirmed dead in a plane crash accident that happened early Sunday morning in Baotou City, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, according to local government sources. (Xinhua photo)

Fifty-four people have been confirmed dead in a plane crash accident that happened early Sunday morning in Baotou City, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, according to local government sources.

A Bombardier CRJ200 crashed into a park lake in the suburb of Baotou, one minute after it took off towards the eastern China metropolis Shanghai, killing 53 people aboard and one on the ground.

The remains of the victims, including 47 passengers, six crew members and an elderly worker with the Nanhai Park, have all been found, the sources said.

The park worker was found dead near a ticket box that was fell by the nosediving plane, the sources added.

Of the crew, three were pilots, two were stewards and one was security worker, according to China Eastern Airlines Yunnan Branch,to which the crashed plane was reportedly belonged.

Airlines officials said that among the victims, there was an Indonesian passenger.

Salvage work is continuing to search for flight data recorders,the black boxes, and other fragments of the crashed plane from thepark lake full of ice pieces.

CRJ-200, one of the CRJ (Canada Regional Jet) series, is a branch-line civilian aircraft supplied by the Bombardier Aerospacebased in Canada. It accommodates 50 seats.

Seven Chinese airlines, including the China Eastern, Shanghai Airlines and Shandong Airlines, bought 29 Bombardier planes.

It is reported that all of the Bombardier planes in China have been suspended.