“MY LAST WORDS”
Hours after the crash, members of the family gathered within the airport’s arrivals space, some crying and hugging one another as Red Cross volunteers handed out blankets.
Families screamed and cried loudly as a health care provider introduced the names of twenty-two victims recognized by their fingerprints.
Papers have been distributed for households to notice down their contact particulars.
A relative was in entrance of the microphone to ask the authorities for extra info. “My older brother died and I do not know what is going on on,” he stated. “I have no idea.”
Another requested journalists to not movie. “We are usually not monkeys in a zoo,” he stated. “We are the grieving households.”
Mortuary automobiles lined up exterior to remove the our bodies and authorities stated a brief morgue had been arrange.
The crash web site smelled of gas and blood, in response to Reuters witnesses, and staff in protecting fits and masks combed the world as troopers searched bushes.
Authorities had been working to rescue folks within the tail part, an airport official advised Reuters shortly after the crash.
According to transportation ministry information, the crash is the worst ever for a South Korean airline for the reason that Korea Air crash in Guam in 1997, which killed greater than 200 folks.
Investigators are wanting into fowl strikes and climate situations as doable components, Lee stated. Yonhap cited airport authorities as saying a fowl strike might have precipitated the touchdown gear to malfunction.
The management tower issued a fowl strike warning and shortly thereafter the pilots declared mayday, a transport ministry official stated, with out specifying whether or not the flight claimed to have hit any birds.
Soon after the mayday name, the airplane made its ill-fated touchdown try, the official stated.
A passenger texted a relative to say a fowl was caught within the wing, News1 reported. The individual’s remaining message was, “Should I say my final phrases?”
Among the passengers have been two Thai nationals and the others are believed to be South Koreans, in response to the transport ministry.
