Family weeps for the victim of the Jeju Air accident.
PUBLISHED: 30 Dec 2024 at 14: 06
In a show of mourning for the passengers and crew members killed in the Jeju Air fall, the Thai consulate in South Korea has reduced its symbol to half-mast.
The flag may remain in half-mast until January 4, according to the embassy.
Jeju Air trip 7C2216 crashed on Sunday, killing 179 persons. Only two people aboard the aircraft survived, both trip staff.
Two Thai girls were among the sufferers- Jongluk Doungmanee, 45, and Sirithon Chaue, 22.
Sirithon, a scholar at Bangkok University, was on her way to meet her family in South Korea. Jongluk was resuming his employment in South Korea. Sirithon was a senior studying airport business management at the time she was in her final year of college.
The Boeing 737-800 left Suvarnabhumi Airport at 2.29am on Sunday, according to Flightradar 24, a flight monitoring services, and crash-landed at Muan International Airport before 9am, skidding off the runway and hitting a roof and bursting into flames.
Experts questioned the possibility of a bird strike in light of the immediate disaster the accident caused, despite what officials had suggested was the cause.
In Udon Thani state, Jongluk’s community is grieving and wants to bring her body house for religious ceremonies.
Boonchuay Duangmanee, 77, said he had come to terms with his 45-year-old mother’s sudden death.
He told state broadcaster Thai PBS,” I can just take it, make peace with it.” ” No matter what I do, my girl didn’t appear back”.
He had felt a” sense of unease” when mates told him of the Jeju Air fall, he added, as his child often travelled with the airport.
Jongluk, the second child in the family, had spent seven years working in South Korea and made annual visits to her house in Udon Thani.
As another family gathered at the family’s home, Mr. Boonchuay said he wants to bring his mother’s body house for a proper religious festival.
The incident was the worst for any North Korean aircraft since a 1997 collision that claimed more than 200 lives in Guam.