Airline meets victims’ relatives for compo talks

TransAsia Airways representatives yesterday met with relatives of the victims of last week’s plane crash in Taiwan to discuss compensation after it began distributing money to families of the deceased for funeral costs.

At the river crash site, divers tried to find the bodies of the three people still missing by using metal detectors to locate their watches or seat belts.

At least 40 people died after the propeller-jet crashed into the muddy Keelung River minutes after take-off on Wednesday from Taipei’s airport. Fifteen of the 58 people aboard the plane were rescued.