Bhandari, Amit and Ravi Ananthanarayanan. "Catastrophic failure, but how?" Times of India. 26 de mayo de 2002. Comprobado el 3 de mayo de 2009. "All but one of the 225 persons on board the plane were Chinese. Most were from Taiwan, while others came from China, Hong Kong, Macau or Singapore. The only non-Chinese foreigner was Swiss, identified by "The Taipei Times" as a Mr Luigi Heer."