Dozens of relatives gathered at Muan International Airport to hear the names of the victims identified from the ill-fated Jeju Air flight JC-2216. Most of the 179 people killed have been recovered, with only two survivors.
Relatives of those onboard the Jeju Air flight JC-2216 gathered at Muan International Airport to hear the names of the victims who had been identified.Dozens of relatives of those onboard the ill-fated Jeju Air flight JC-2216 gathered at a conference room at Muan International Airport , red-eyed and distraught.At this stage, most of the victims had been identified. The sheer scale of the explosion and wreckage of the clashed passenger jet made body retrieval and identification a daunting task.
'Is there absolutely no chance of survival?' one family member asked, according to Yonhap news agency.South Korea's acting President Choi Sang-mok declared a seven-day national mourning period on Sunday.All but two of the 179 people killed have been recovered. There were only two survivors. Some of the passengers were families with young children and teenagers, returning from holidays in Thailand. Footage online shows the aircraft skidding along its bottom, before colliding with a barrier at the end of the runway and exploding.The plane's fuselage was destroyed, with just the end of the tail left intact, requiring some 1,500 personnel to comb the site for bodies and clues for the crash. While no official reason has been released, officials have confirmed a landing gear was malfunctioning and are investigating whether a bird strike or poor weather were factors in the crash. One witness, Yoo Jae-young, told South Korean news agency Yonhap he saw a spark on the right wing before the crash. Control tower operators have confirmed the aircraft was initially told to hold off from landing due to a bird strike warning.'At that time, the control tower issued permission to land in the opposite direction of the runway, and it was confirmed that the pilot accepted it and, during the landing process, crossed the runway and crashed into a wall,' South Korea's Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport explaine
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