Father of girl killed in South Korea air crash says the tragedy is unbelievable By Reuters

By Ju-min Park and Dogyun Kim

MUAN COUNTY, South Korea (Reuters) – Jeon Je-young retains having fun with the video of the airplane collectively along with his daughter and one different 180 people on board slamming proper right into a wall and bursting into flames at a South Korean airport.

His daughter Mi-sook died on board. He nonetheless can’t think about it.

“After I observed the accident video, the airplane appeared uncontrolled,” acknowledged 71-year-old Jeon. “The pilots possibly had no various nonetheless to do it. My daughter, who is just in her mid-40s, ended up like this. That’s unbelievable.”

Mi-sook was a warm-hearted child, he acknowledged. She launched some meals and subsequent yr’s calendar to his house on Dec. 21, which grew to turn out to be his closing transient second alongside along with her.

“She is approach nicer than my son, usually asking me to exit for a meal,” Jeon recalled, exhibiting his closing exchanges collectively along with his daughter on his cellphone.

The deadliest air accident ever in South Korea killed 179 people on Sunday, when an airliner belly-landed and skidded off the tip of the runway, erupting in a fireball on the Muan Worldwide Airport.

Jeju Air flight 7C2216, arriving from the Thai capital Bangkok with 175 passengers and 6 crew on board, was seen skidding down the runway with no seen landing gear sooner than crashing into navigation instruments and a wall in an explosion of flames and particles.

Solely two people – every crew members – survived and have been being dealt with for accidents.

GRIEF AND RAGE

Authorities often called out the names of some of those killed inside the crash, triggering an explosion of grief and rage among the many many passengers’ households gathered inside the airport’s arrival area.

They screamed, wept and collapsed on the bottom of the terminal the place their members of the family had been as a consequence of return residence.

Crime scene investigators collected saliva swaps from households to run DNA checks to find out the victims.

Jeon’s daughter had been on her method residence after travelling with buddies to Bangkok for the Christmas trip. She leaves behind a devastated family, along with a husband and teenaged daughter.

“The water near the airport won’t be deep. Listed beneath are softer fields than this cement runway. Why couldn’t the pilot land there as a substitute?” Jeon acknowledged.

Hearth officers reported that the affect of the crash had left the airplane “almost totally destroyed”.

“By collision twice and explosion, lots of the passengers have been thrown off the airplane, though two crew members fortuitously survived on the tail end,” acknowledged Yeom Dong-bu, a Muan firefighter who was dispatched to the scene.

“I used to work on ambulances so I’ve seen such a horrible stuff like automotive crashes, nonetheless not on this scale,” he added.

Mi-sook was acknowledged by her fingerprints, and her family is in the hunt for a funeral residence near her metropolis of Gwangju to maneuver her physique there.

“She was almost residence, so (she observed) no should title the family (to depart any closing message). She thought she was coming residence,” Jeon acknowledged.