Air Crash Pollutes Nature Reserve in North China City

Air crash pollutes nature reserve in north China city

HOHHOT, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) — A passenger plane that crashed into a lake in Nanhai Park, a wetland nature reserve, of north China’s Baotou city a year ago has caused huge economic losses from ecological contamination, said an environment appraisal report.

The Chinese Academy of Environmental Sciences on Monday unveiled an evaluation paper, saying that economic loss worth some 105 million yuan (13 million US dollars) was resulted from the air crash accident in Baotou of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

A passenger plane with 47 passengers and six crew members on aboard, crashed into the lake in Nanhai Park shortly after it took off on Nov. 21 last year. All people on board died in the air crash.

It caused heavy oil leakage into the lake and seriously contaminated the park’s wetland system, the evaluation report said.

It proposed an ecological recovering scheme including polluted- water drainage as well as dredging and filling up with fresh silt and mud to restore 2,000-hectare wetland system.