The National Fire Agency of South Korea has established that 179 bodies have been recovered from the wreckage of the Jeju Air flight after a deadly plane crash, with 77 victims identified so far.
Contrary to speculations and reports by some media outlets, nobody is missing from the plane manifest and all passengers accounted for.
The 737-800 aircraft was flying from Bangkok, Thailand, to Muan Airport.
All passengers and four crew onboard a plane perished when their craft crashed and burst into a fireball in South Korea.
Reports from Seoul indicate that the Jeju Air flight 7C2216, carrying 181 people from Bangkok, Thailand, was attempting to land at South Korea’s Muan International Airport on Sunday when it veered off the runway and crashed onto a wall, erupting into a fiery explosion.
There were however two survivors, both being flight attendants who were rescued from the wreckage and rushed to the nearby hospital.
Five children, among them an innocent three-year-old boy, are reported to have been the youngest victims of the horror plane crash of South Korea.
Among the victims there were two Thai citizens, but the rest of those on board happened to be South Korean residents.
This tragedy ranks as one of the worst aviation disasters in South Korea’s history and the deadliest involving a local airline since the 1997 Korean Air crash in Guam, which killed 225 people.
Senior Transport Ministry official Joo Jong-wan said workers have retrieved the flight data and cockpit voice recorders of the plane’s black box, which will be examined by government experts investigating the cause of the crash and fire,
The South Korea plane horror occurred less than five days after another passenger aircraft with nearly 100 people crashed on the 25th of December 2024 in Kazakhstan.
The doomed Azerbaijan Airlines jet hit the ground and burst into a fireball in Aktau, Kazakhstan.
The Embraer E190AR with registration number 4K-AZ65 had sent a distress signal following a collision with a bird as it had intended to reach Grozny in Russia.