A flight attendant, one of just two survivors of the Jeju Air plane crash in South Korea on Sunday that killed 179 people, is awake and talking, a hospital official said.
The deadliest accident in aviation history occurred in 1977, when two Boeing 747 jumbo jets collided on a foggy runway on the Spanish island of Tenerife, killing 583 of the 644 people on board the planes. Spanish investigators blamed the captain of the KLM 747 for taking off without clearance from air traffic controllers.
Investigators will try to determine what happened on the plane, including how its mechanical systems were functioning and which actions the pilots took.
Jeju Air Flight 7C2216 crashed in South Korea on Sunday, killing 179 people on board.
On Dec. 29, all passengers aboard a flight on South Korean carrier Jeju Air were killed when a plane skidded down a runway and burst into flames. The incident happened at Muan International Airport (MWX) in the country's southernmost region.
South Korea's acting president on Monday ordered an emergency inspection of the country's aviation system one day after a flight operated by Jeju Air crashed at Muan International Airport, killing 179 passengers.
The Jeju Air crash in South Korea is an outlier in a country considered to be a gold standard for airline safety.
South Korean officials will conduct safety inspections of all Boeing 737-800 aircraft operated by the country's airlines after a deadly Jeju Air crash.
Shares of Boeing fell in early trading on Monday, one day after a Boeing model 737-800 was involved in the Jeju Air plane crash in South Korea that killed scores of passengers. The stock price dropped more than 4% at the open of trading on Monday morning.
An aviation safety expert in the US says Sunday's deadly jetliner crash in South Korea raises some questions about the airport's design. He adds that he doesn't see anything right now that points to any flaw in the plane itself.
The sounds of sobbing, prayers and anguish echoed through the departures hall of an airport in southwestern South Korea on Monday as families of the victims killed when a passenger jet crash-landed over the weekend waited for their loved ones to be identified.