South Korea Plane Crash Victims Included Entire Families

All 179 victims from the Jeju Air crash in South Korea have been recognized, authorities stated, together with complete households and a 3-year-old boy.

Solely two folks — each crew members, one male and one feminine, who had been engaged on the flight from Bangkok to Muan Worldwide Airport — survived the Sunday morning crash, which occurred after the Boeing 737-800 landed on its stomach and crashed right into a concrete fence, bursting into flames.

The Washington Post reports complete households had been among the many victims, together with some that had three generations touring collectively for the vacations. The New York Times reports a person on the airplane hadn’t instructed his household he’d be touring in order to not fear them.

The New York Post shared images posted to Instagram by a mom on trip together with her husband and 3-year-old son, who had been all among the many victims recognized by native media. Authorities confirmed Sunday a 3-year-old boy was the youngest individual to die within the crash.

Households of victims waited days on the airport as officers labored to determine all of the our bodies. According to the BBC, Police Superintendent Normal Na Received-o defined the method was shifting slowly due to how badly the our bodies had been broken.

South Korea’s Transport Ministry stated 11 our bodies have been handed over to family to date, according to The Associated Press. Households of the victims had been in a position to go to the crash website for the primary time on New 12 months’s Day.

American investigators aiding within the examination of the crash arrived in South Korea on Tuesday. The AP studies a broken flight knowledge recorder, known as a black field, will likely be despatched to the US for evaluation, and Transport Ministry had retrieved knowledge from a second black field that had recorded audio from the cockpit of the airplane.