No survivors have been found more than 12 hours after China Northern Airlines passenger plane crashed in the sea off northeast China with 112 people on board, a local official said Wednesday.
"No survivors have been found," said an official at Dalian airport who was in charge of dealing with relatives of the passengers on the ill-fated flight, which crashed late Tuesday.
The official said that bodies salvaged from the sea were placed at various hospitals throughout the city, and that identification had not yet begun.
More than 70 bodies and various items of wreckage were pulled from the water within hours of Tuesday night's crash, the China News Service reported earlier in the day.
The pilot of flight 6136 from Beijing to Dalian in Liaoning province reported a fire in the cabin of his MD-82 jet just before he was due to land in the coastal city, 500 kilometres (310 miles) northeast of the Chinese capital.
(China Daily May 8, 2002)
