South Korea begins releasing bodies of plane crash victims

The bodies of four victims were released by South Korean authorities; 179 people died in one of the country’s largest airline disasters

Authority South Korea began this Tuesday, the 31st, to free the bodies of the victims of the fall of the plane that left the runway and collided with a wall at Muan International Airport last Sunday, 29. The first four bodies, of the 179 victims who were in the Boeing 737-8AS of Jeju Air, were released and handed over to their families.

There were 181 people on board when the plane made an emergency call and landed without its landing gear activated, before colliding with a wall and catching fire. All passengers on the flight died and two flight attendants were rescued alive.

The accident was allegedly caused by “contact with birds resulting in landing gear malfunction” during the plane’s landing at the airport, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported.

American investigators, some of them from Boeing itself, arrived at the crash site in the city of Muan, in the south-west of the country, just as the country’s authorities began to evaluate the two black boxes recovered from the burned wreckage of the ‘airplane.

The current president Choi Sang-mok he lamented the crash and said the case was a “turning point” for the country requiring a complete overhaul of aviation safety. It called on authorities to “carefully review the overall operating system of the aircraft (…) and immediately address any necessary improvements.” /AFP

Source: Terra

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