(31 Dec 2024)
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Muan, South Korea – 31 December 2024
1. Wide of family briefing at Muan International Airport
2. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Park Sang-woo, Transportation Minister:
"We finished placing bodies inside the freezer container early in the morning. What I have to tell you is that out of 179, four of them were identified last night and were delivered to families. 175 bodies were placed inside the freezer container. From those, there were many who needed DNA tests to be identified. Most of them, 170 people were identified."
3. Wide of a bereaved family member talking to Park
4. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Park Sang-woo, Transportation Minister:
"I am sorry but there are five people who have not been identified yet. They need more precise testing for results, and I have heard it is due to various reasons. For those five, we will try our best and deliver the results before the end of the day."
5. Wide of briefing
STORYLINE:
South Korea’s Transportation Minister Park Sang-woo said 174 victims of the 179 people killed in a plane crash have been identified as of Tuesday morning.
Speaking to media and families of victims during a briefing at Muan International Airport, Park said four were identified last night, and another 170 were confirmed after their bodies were transferred to a freezer container.
He added that five people have not been identified for "various reasons."
Park said the four bodies identified last night had already been delivered to bereaved families for funerals and promised the families that they will identify the rest as soon as possible.
South Korean officials said they would conduct safety inspections of all Boeing 737-800 aircraft operated by the country’s airlines, as they struggle to determine what caused the plane crash that killed 179 people a day earlier.
A Boeing 737-800 plane operated by South Korean budget airline Jeju Air came down with its front landing gear closed and struck a concrete fence Sunday at Muan International Airport in southern South Korea.
Sunday’s crash, the country’s worst aviation disaster in decades, triggered an outpouring of national sympathy.
Many people worry how effectively the South Korean government will handle the disaster as it grapples with a leadership vacuum following the recent successive impeachments of President Yoon Suk Yeol and Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, the country’s top two officials, amid political tumult caused by Yoon’s brief imposition of martial law earlier this month.
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