South Korea reels from disastrous airliner crash that kills 179 people aboard
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🗓️ 29 December 2024
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In today's other news, South Korea is in mourning following the deadliest air disaster ever on that nation's soil. |
| 0:07.6 | Flight 2216 was landing in the city of Muon in the southwestern part of the country, |
| 0:13.0 | following a five-hour trip back from Bangkok, Thailand, when tragedy struck. |
| 0:17.9 | A warning, some of the images you're about to see are disturbing. |
| 0:24.0 | At 903, tragedy struck. A warning. Some of the images you're about to see are disturbing. At 9.03 a.m. at Muan International Airport, a. Chaju Air passenger plane sped down the runway, |
| 0:30.8 | its front landing gear nowhere in sight, and slammed into a concrete wall bursting into flames. |
| 0:43.3 | 179 of the 181 people on board were killed. Two crew members who were at the very back of the plane |
| 0:46.3 | were rescued with non-life-threatening injuries. |
| 0:49.3 | Jay-on Jeyung's daughter didn't survive. |
| 0:52.3 | She was almost home. |
| 0:56.0 | She didn't feel the need to make a call. |
| 0:59.0 | She thought she was coming home. |
| 1:01.0 | By the time she took out her phone, the plane probably had crashed. |
| 1:05.0 | Cheju Air's CEO offered contrition but few answers. |
| 1:09.0 | Firstly, I bow an apology to everyone who has cherished Cheju Air. |
| 1:14.7 | Above all, I want to give my sincere apology and condolences to those who have lost their |
| 1:20.0 | lives in the accident and their families. |
| 1:22.9 | At the moment, it is hard to presume the cause of the accident. |
| 1:26.3 | We have to wait for the official |
| 1:27.8 | investigation result from the authorities. Investigators are still combing through the |
| 1:33.5 | debris of the Boeing 737-800 trying to piece together what happened. South Korea's transport |
| 1:39.5 | ministry says a control tower warned the plane against possible bird strikes and the pilot sent out |
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