The survivors were among six crew members aboard the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800, which went off the runway and collided with a wall.
South Korea has promised to conduct thorough investigations into the cause of a plane crash that killed 179 people, as well as inspect all Boeing 737-800 planes operated by the country’s airlines.
Sunday’s crash, the country’s greatest aviation disaster in decades, has sent shockwaves through South Korean society, which is already dealing with a political crisis that has resulted in the impeachment of the country’s top two leaders, President Yoon Suk Yeol and Prime Minister Han Duk-soo.
What do we know about the survivor?
The survivors, a man and a woman, were among six crew members on the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 when it veered off the runway, collided with a wall, and caught fire on Sunday morning. Officials stated there were 181 passengers onboard.
Two survivors of the plane disaster were recovering in different hospitals in Seoul on Monday.
One of the survivors received treatment for fractures in his ribs, shoulder blade, and upper spine. Ju Woong, director of the Ewha Womans University Seoul Hospital that treated him, said the guy informed physicians that he “woke up to find (himself) rescued.”
The majority of the passengers were South Koreans, with two Thai nationals among them.
The transportation ministry stated that investigators have identified 146 bodies and are gathering DNA and fingerprint samples from the remaining 33.
Jeju Air Flight 7C 2216 had taken out from Bangkok and was landing at Muan International Airport in southern South Korea. Following an initial aborted landing attempt, the ground control center issued a bird attack warning to the Boeing 737-800.
The pilot then issued a distress signal before the plane crashed with its front landing gear closed, overshot the runway, collided with a concrete fence, and exploded into flames.
According to observers, videos of the disaster show the jet suffering from suspected engine issues, but the landing gear breakdown was most likely the primary cause.
The second survivor, a 25-year-old flight attendant named Koo, was also recovering, though she was not in intensive care, according to hospital staff and authorities from the Korean Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport. The ministry verified that both survivors survived life-threatening injuries, and that they recovered consciousness in the hospital but had no clear memory of what happened after a huge blast during the landing.
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South Korea begins releasing Jeju air crash victims to their relatives.
South Korean authorities began releasing the corpses of plane disaster victims to their relatives on Tuesday, as investigators raced to discover why the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 crashed and caught fire.
US investigators, including those from Boeing, arrived at the crash scene in southeastern Muan, officials said, as South Korean authorities began evaluating two black boxes recovered from the aircraft’s burned-out wreckage.
