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.