South Korea plane crash: Relatives set up tent camp in airport
Family members have gathered at the South Korea’s Muan International Airport for news of their relatives killed in a fiery plane crash.
MUAN, South Korea — Outside South Korea’s Muan International Airport the smell of jet fuel is still in the air, days after a passenger jet belly-landed and skidded off the end of the runway, erupting into a fireball.
Inside the departures terminal, dozens of yellow and beige tents have been set up for relatives to sleep in as rescuers search the wreckage for the bodies of their loved ones. No one wants to leave as the agonizing identification process takes place.
It could take weeks or even months to identify the bodies of the 175 passengers and four crew members who were killed when the Jeju Air Flight 2216 from Bangkok came down at around 9 a.m. local time Sunday (7 pm ET Saturday).
Astonishingly, two flight attendants at the back of the plane survived, one reportedly asking doctors “what happened” and “why am I here,” to doctors after they blacked out.
Lee Dong-Suk, who lost his aunt and uncle in the crash, told NBC News Monday that he thought the government should work faster to identify the bodies and provide families with more information.
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