The heartbreaking final words of a passenger on the doomed Jeju Air flight that crashed and killed 179 were shared online.
The flight was traveling from Thailand’s capital city of Bangkok with 181 people on board. It tried to make a landing at 9 am at South Korea’s Muan International Airport when all of a sudden, it veered off the runway and erupted into a fireball while slamming into the airport’s wall.
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One of the passengers onboard the flight texted a relative and spoke about a bird stuck in its wing. The person’s final message was, ‘Should I say my last words?’- and that was the end.
The crash is called the country’s worst-ever aviation disaster. Only two crew members were pulled out alive and said to be alive and out of danger. However, one of the two flight attendants was interviewed but he does not have any memory of the incident.
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The twin-engine Boeing 737-800 was seen in the video shared by local media outlets, skidding down the runway with no landing gear before it rammed into the wall and resulted in a massive explosion of flame and debris.
Other images saw smoke and fire engulfing major parts of the aircraft. Meanwhile, investigation are looking into possible bird strikes and poor weather conditions as major reasons for the crash. One local media outlet says that the bird strike possibly caused the landing gear to malfunction.
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Workers have retrieved the flight data and cockpit voice recorders of the plane’s black box which will now be examined by the country’s experts to determine the cause of crash and fire.
