Heartbroken relatives arrive to take their loved ones home
Scenes of grief at funeral parlour as relatives view photos to identify bodies
Many of the relatives of the 31 mainland passengers on TransAsia Airways flight GE235 fought back tears as they arrived in Taiwan yesterday.
Out of respect for the deceased, the injured and their families, a scheduled meeting between the mainland's Taiwan affairs head, Zhang Zhijun, and his Taiwanese counterpart, Wang Yu-chi, was postponed to a later date yet to be decided, a Taiwan Affairs Office spokesman said yesterday afternoon.
The two were due to meet this weekend during Zhang's official visit to Quemoy, also the destination of the TransAsia flight.
The spokesperson also said the mainland's civil aviation authority would send a team to work with Taiwanese experts investigating the crash.
The 31 mainland passengers were part of two tour groups flying from Taipei to Quemoy on Wednesday morning on the last day of their six-day trip to Taiwan.
By last night, 21 had been confirmed dead, three had survived and the rest were missing.
Among the dozens of relatives flying in to Taipei's Taoyuan International Airport yesterday afternoon was Tang Ke, the fiancée of tour guide Wang Qinghuo.