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Today is New Year’s Day, a day meant to be spent with family, which makes the sorrow even greater,
Choi Sang-mok, South Korea’s acting president, said in a New Year’s Day address
We will enhance pre- and post-flight inspections and weather monitoring and pay close attention to the emotional well-being of aviation personnel,
he saidOnly the tail part retains a little bit of shape, and the rest of [the plane] looks almost impossible to recognise.”
Lee Jung-hyun, chief of the Muan fire department, said
Smoke came out of one of the plane’s engines and then it exploded.”
She reportedly said in her initial statementsThe 737-800s I have been on all have seats facing backwards at the rear,
he told The TelegraphIt should be looked at. Nobody is talking about this. There is a lot we can do and it is virtually untapped.”
Malmquist saidThey definitely would have been wearing harnesses, that would possibly have helped, and if they were sitting backwards that would keep them somewhat safer,
he told The TelegraphIt would be safer, but people don’t like to wear the harnesses, and of course it is the cost,
he said,We are in contact with Jeju Air regarding flight 2216 and stand ready to support them. We extend our deepest condolences to the families who lost loved ones, and our thoughts remain with the passengers and crew."
In a statement issued to Newsweek on Sunday, Boeing said
My friend and his wife were on their retirement trip, and we even talked on the phone last week. We talked about going on a trip of our own soon,
Jeon tells Al Jazeera with a trembling voice
We don’t have any blood relations [among the victims], but I consider everyone who was on that flight as my family. Especially for people like me who went through times of brutal political oppression in the 1980s, we feel a deep bond to cities in this part of the region,
he says, mentioning the Gwangju massacre, in which hundreds of lives were known to be taken by the military, which was in power at the timeIt’s sad to see that my friend is not next to his wife on the altar,
Jeon saysShe was the one who suggested our trip to Yeosu this past summer and to Daecheon in the fall. She took care of our ill father during his last days. We took courage from her,
he says, before walking away, overcome with emotionI used to always kick around a soccer ball when I was young, and my uncle would visit our home often to see us. He was the only adult during our family gatherings to come play with the kids,
Ki recallsWe even got married around the same time, so our families often met and went on trips together. He was gentle and quiet, but he always looked out for others like a big brother,
Jeon recallsI believe in an afterlife, so I wish all the victims peace in their next journeys,
Song saysJust a day before my sister left on her trip, she visited our mother’s home in Gwangju to give her Christmas presents,
remembers a middle-aged man getting fresh air outside the airport, who lost his sister and brother-in-law in the crashIt's just uncomfortable that you would put a concrete barrier, because what that does is that guarantees destruction and death to the occupants of an airplane that's going to hit,
Pruchnicki said
A big question is why the pilot was in such a hurry to land.
Hwang Ho-won, chairman of the Korea Association for Aviation Security, told DNYUZ
I flew 737s for 10 years as a captain, and I can say that the landing gear can be manually deployed, so the real question will be, what set up the sequence of events here?
Robert Sumwalt, the former NTSB chair, told CBS News