MUAN, South Korea: South Korean authorities started handing over the our bodies of airplane crash victims to their households on Tuesday (Dec 31), as investigators raced to find out why the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 crash landed and it caught fireplace.
U.S. investigators, together with these from Boeing, arrived on the crash website in southwest Muan, officers stated, as South Korean authorities started evaluating two black packing containers recovered from the airplane’s burned wreckage.
The airplane was carrying 181 individuals from Thailand to South Korea when it made an emergency name and landed on its abdomen earlier than crashing right into a barrier and catching fireplace.
Everyone aboard Jeju Air Flight 2216 was killed besides two flight attendants pulled from the wreckage.
South Korea observes seven days of mourning with flags at half-mast.
Acting President Choi Sang-mok, who has solely been in workplace since Friday, stated the crash was a “turning level” for the nation, calling for a whole overhaul of aviation security techniques.
He urged officers to “fastidiously assessment the plane’s general working system… and instantly tackle any mandatory enhancements.”
“Today marks the final day of 2024,” he stated Tuesday, urging residents to “mirror on the previous 12 months and put together for the brand new one.”
“I’m properly conscious that at any time when challenges have emerged, each nationally and internationally, all residents and public officers have come along with one coronary heart and one thoughts to beat these crises.”
