A passenger on the ill-fated Jeju Air flight 7C2216 sent a text message to a relative stating a bird was stuck in the wing before asking, 'Should I say my last words?' The aircraft crashed while attempting to land at South Korea's Muan International Airport, killing at least 179 people. Investigations are underway to determine the cause of the crash, with bird strikes and weather conditions being considered as possible factors.
The heartbreaking last words of a passenger on the doomed Jeju Air flight that crashed, so far killing 179, have been revealed. Jeju Air flight 7C2216, arriving from the Thai capital Bangkok with 181 people on board, was attempting to land shortly after 9 a.m. (0000 GMT) at South Korea 's Muan International Airport when it veered off the runway and erupted in a fireball as it slammed into a wall.
A passenger texted a relative to say a bird was stuck in the wing of the plane, the News1 agency reported. The person's final message was, 'Should I say my last words?' The crash is the worst by any South Korean airline since a 1997 Korean Air crash in Guam that killed more than 200 people, according to transportation ministry data. The twin-engine Boeing 737-800 can be seen in video from local media skidding down the runway with no apparent landing gear before slamming into a wall in an explosion of flame and debris. Other photos showed smoke and fire engulfing parts of the plane. Investigators are looking into bird strikes and weather conditions as possible factors. Local media cited airport authorities as saying a bird strike may have caused the landing gear to malfunction. Senior Transport Ministry official Joo Jong-wan said workers have retrieved the flight data and cockpit voice recorders of the plane's black box, which will be examined by government experts investigating the cause of the crash and fire. The control tower issued a bird strike warning and shortly afterwards the pilots declared mayday, a transport ministry official said, without specifying whether the flight said it struck any birds. About one minute after the mayday call the aircraft made its ill-fated attempt to land, the official sai
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