The black-box of a crashed passenger plane was found in Yichun City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province on August 25.

A local publicity official said earlier that 43 dead bodies were retrieved. According to the death toll released by the city government, the dead were aged roughly from 12 to 55, calculated from their birth dates indicated in their ID numbers. Among them, however, was a Chinese holding a passport and three crew members whose ID numbers were not available.

Rescuers wrapped up the bodies early on Wednesday and have transported them to the city's funeral homes for families to identify them.

The ERJ-190 jet, manufactured by the Brazilian aerospace conglomerate Embraer with maximum passenger capacity of 108, crashed near the runaway of Lindu airport of Yichun at 9:36 p.m. on Tuesday, some 40 minutes after it took off from the provincial capital Harbin.

Ninety-one passengers, including five children, and five crew members boarded the plane, sources with the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) said.

Officials in Yichun confirmed a group of officials from Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security were also on board, including a vice minister and six division chiefs. Most of them survived with injuries, and the Vice Minister Sun Baoshu was in critical condition.