Soldiers and rescuers have retrieved 35 bodies from a China Airlines Boeing 747-200 jet that crashed into the Taiwan Strait en route from Taipei to Hong Kong, Taiwan aviation officials said on Sunday. They said there have been no survivors so far from the plane which had 225 people aboard.

The search team had also detected the location of the plane`s two black boxes, but has yet to recover them, an official said.

China Airlines flight CI 611 suddenly disappeared off radar screens 20 minutes after taking off at 3:08 p.m. (3:08 a.m. EDT) on Saturday. It plunged into the sea north of the island of Penghu, also known as the Pescadores, off Taiwan`s west coast. Bureau Report