South Korea plane disaster
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
A plane carrying 181 people has crashed on landing at an airport in Muan County, South Korea. Officials say they believe nearly everyone on board has died. Two survivors have been found, both flight staff who were rescued from the wreckage and taken to hospital.
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(Picture: Scene of a plane crash at Muan International Airport, South Korea. Credit: EPA)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service. We're coming to you live from London. My name's Paul Henley. |
| 0:11.0 | Now a plane carrying 181 people has crashed on landing at an airport in South Korea. Officials are saying they believe nearly everyone on board has died. Two survivors have been found. |
| 0:23.0 | It appears to have been the deadliest air accident ever on South Korean soil. And establishing |
| 0:28.5 | exactly what happened might be a challenge given the extensive damage the aircraft suffered. |
| 0:33.9 | There is already speculation about what went wrong. We heard some of that from the chief of the local fire station Li Zhong Heon when he spoke at a news conference. |
| 0:43.8 | We are presuming the cause of the accident to be a bird strike or deteriorating weather conditions, |
| 0:51.4 | and the exact cause will be determined by a further forensic and joint investigation. |
| 0:56.2 | We're doing our best to search for more survivors. As a person who's seen the site, I can only say, |
| 1:02.1 | I'm sad. Well, let's hear live from our correspondent, Yuna Koo, who is at Muen International Airport, |
| 1:08.3 | where the crash happened. Yuna, welcome. |
| 1:13.8 | Can you talk us through what seems to have happened in this disaster? |
| 1:16.1 | Hello, Paul. |
| 1:22.3 | I'm now right at inside the airport, and this is where the accident happened today. |
| 1:29.5 | The passenger aircraft operated by Jeju Air, one of the most popular low-budget airline made an emergency landing on this runway without a landing gear, but failed to reduce speed and collided with a |
| 1:35.6 | structure at the end of the runway. So out of 181 passengers, now 179 have been confirmed |
| 1:44.0 | dead with only two survivors. |
| 1:46.5 | What is happening now? How does the inquiry begin? How is it structured? |
| 1:52.5 | Now, investigation is still going on, and the authority have just announced that they |
| 1:58.4 | recovered two black box from the airplane. But still, |
| 2:03.6 | many bereaved families are at the airport waiting for their loved ones to be identified, |
| 2:08.9 | because, as I said, 179 deaths have been confirmed, but only dozens of them are identified. |
| 2:16.5 | So they are still waiting for the authorities announcement. |
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