Tragedy struck Muan Worldwide Airport in South Korea on Sunday as a Jeju Air flight crashed, leaving solely two survivors out of 181 passengers and crew. Solely two flight attendants survived the lethal crash.
Two current deadly aircraft crashes, one in Kazakhstan and the opposite in South Korea, have renewed issues about aviation security. In each incidents, survivors have been discovered within the rear part of the plane: many from the Azerbaijan Airways aircraft and the 2 surviving crew members from the South Korean crash. This raises the query: are seats at the back of a aircraft inherently safer?
A 2015 research by Time journal that examined over 35 years of accident knowledge discovered that fewer fatalities occurred towards the again seats. Whereas the middle seat had a demise fee of 39% and the entrance seats had a demise fee of 38%, the again seat had a demise fee of 32%.
The 2 survivors, recognized as 32-year-old Lee and 25-year-old Kwon, have been pulled from the tail part of the charred plane. In line with the hospital authorities, each the survivors have vital accidents and trauma, however their lives usually are not at risk, the hospital employees mentioned, the Korean Occasions reported.
The aircraft concerned in Sunday’s crash was a Boeing plane. 1 Boeing has confronted scrutiny in recent times, notably concerning the Boeing 737 MAX, which was linked to deadly crashes in 2018 and 2019, leading to 346 deaths. This yr, a number of incidents have been involving Boeing plane, together with a cabin door blowout on an Alaska Airways flight.
In the meantime, South Korea ramped up investigations on Tuesday into the reason for its deadliest home air accident as police scrambled to determine victims. On the similar time, households of these killed on this week’s crash of a Jeju Air jet pushed for extra particulars.
On Monday, South Korea’s Performing President Choi Sang-mok, ordered an emergency security inspection of the nation’s whole airline operation.
