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Today is New Year’s Day, a day meant to be spent with family, which makes the sorrow even greater,
Choi Sang-mok, South Korea’s acting president, said in a New Year’s Day address We will enhance pre- and post-flight inspections and weather monitoring and pay close attention to the emotional well-being of aviation personnel,
Smoke came out of one of the plane’s engines and then it exploded.”
She reportedly said in her initial statements Only the tail part retains a little bit of shape, and the rest of [the plane] looks almost impossible to recognise.”
Lee Jung-hyun, chief of the Muan fire department, said It should be looked at. Nobody is talking about this. There is a lot we can do and it is virtually untapped.”
The 737-800s I have been on all have seats facing backwards at the rear,
They definitely would have been wearing harnesses, that would possibly have helped, and if they were sitting backwards that would keep them somewhat safer,
The cause of the crash remains under investigation, and aviation experts were quick to distinguish Sunday's incident from the company's earlier safety problems,
The company's reputation for safety was especially tarnished by the 737 Max crashes, which occurred off the coast of Indonesia and in Ethiopia less than five months apart in 2018 and 2019 and left a combined 346 people dead. In the five years since then, Boeing has lost more than 23 billion U.S. dollars. And it has fallen behind its European rival, Airbus, in selling and delivering new planes,
For decades, Boeing has maintained a role as one of the giants of American manufacturing. But the past year's repeated troubles have been damaging. The company's stock price is down more than 30 percent in 2024,
It would be safer, but people don’t like to wear the harnesses, and of course it is the cost,
A bird strike on an engine might shut an engine down, but there's so many redundant systems there, it just doesn't make sense. We're not in the dark, but we know the runway is 9,200 feet. It's a very long runway. It [the plane] did come in hot and high, hot and fast. We don't know why that was the real issue,
aviation consultant Mike Boyd told Fox News Sunday My friend and his wife were on their retirement trip, and we even talked on the phone last week. We talked about going on a trip of our own soon,
Jeon tells Al Jazeera with a trembling voice We don’t have any blood relations [among the victims], but I consider everyone who was on that flight as my family. Especially for people like me who went through times of brutal political oppression in the 1980s, we feel a deep bond to cities in this part of the region,
he says, mentioning the Gwangju massacre, in which hundreds of lives were known to be taken by the military, which was in power at the time It’s sad to see that my friend is not next to his wife on the altar,
She was the one who suggested our trip to Yeosu this past summer and to Daecheon in the fall. She took care of our ill father during his last days. We took courage from her,
he says, before walking away, overcome with emotion I used to always kick around a soccer ball when I was young, and my uncle would visit our home often to see us. He was the only adult during our family gatherings to come play with the kids,
We even got married around the same time, so our families often met and went on trips together. He was gentle and quiet, but he always looked out for others like a big brother,
I believe in an afterlife, so I wish all the victims peace in their next journeys,
Just a day before my sister left on her trip, she visited our mother’s home in Gwangju to give her Christmas presents,
remembers a middle-aged man getting fresh air outside the airport, who lost his sister and brother-in-law in the crash
