At least 176 people have died and three are missing, according to the latest official balance. after the plane crash that occurred this Sunday in the southwest of South Koreawhere a Jeju Air airline flight with 181 occupants crashed into a wall during a landing maneuver at Muan International Airport, about 290 kilometers southwest of the capital, Seoul.
The fire service is about to close its official balance sheet after hours earlier the authorities declared 179 of the occupants of the device, a Boeing 737-800 from Bangkok (Thailand), dead. Only two people, both crew members, have survived the tremendous impact.
The South Korean Ministry of Transportation has reported that The plane crew warned, five minutes before the accident, of a collision with a flock of birds which caused damage to the device, unable to open its landing gear. The aircraft touched down on its belly at around 09:03 local time and left the runway until crashing into the outer wall in a fireball extinguished by firefighters 43 minutes later, with the plane already practically destroyed.
There were 175 passengers and six crew members on board, according to the flight manifest — a passage of 82 men and 93 women aged between 3 and 78 years –. The latest balance details that 22 of the deceased have already been identified.
