The shock is deep after the serious plane crash in South Korea on Sunday with 179 deaths. A local newspaper reported the shocking final message a passenger wrote to a family member: “Should I make a will?” he asked shortly before the devastating emergency landing. Contact was then lost.
Miraculously, two crew members survived the Jeju Air plane crash at Muan International Airport. There were a total of 181 people on board. After a first failed landing attempt, a Boeing 737-800 tried to land again in the morning. But the landing gear apparently didn’t go out. The plane overshot the runway shortly after 9 a.m. local time, crashed into the airport fence and burst into flames.
Photos of the scene after the emergency landing:
“A bird hit the wing”
The message that a passenger sent to a family member via the KakaoTalk courier service shortly before the accident supports the theory that a bird strike could have been responsible for the crash. As News1 Korea reported, it went to a recipient who was waiting for his relative at the airport. “There’s a bird stuck in our wing and we can’t land,” the passenger wrote.
The family member showed the last messages of his family member who died in an accident:
When the man asked how long this had been going on, the family member replied a minute later: “Only now. Should I make a will?” Then the passenger could no longer be reached.
Survivors were in the tail of the plane
A male flight attendant (22) and his 25-year-old colleague survived – given the photos showing the wreckage of the crashed plane, this fact borders on a miracle. According to the South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo, they were said to have been in the rear part of the plane. The two suffered serious, but not life-threatening injuries.
“The passengers were thrown onto the runway by the force of the collision. Their bodies were seriously damaged,” a firefighter explained. Many victims were on a Christmas trip
As the South Korean newspaper ‘Chosun Ilbo’ reported, it involved a ‘Christmas charter flight’: a travel agency buys most of the seats in advance and then resells them. With this package, the holidaymakers traveled to Thailand for five days.
Source: Krone
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