South Korea completes identification of all 179 victims of Jeju Air plane crash

Authorities have finished formally identifying the 179 victims of the country's worst air disaster, South Korea’s acting president Choi Sang-mok said at an intra-agency meeting on Wednesday (January 1). Funeral procedures have begun and a joint investigation was underway, Choi said at the meeting. South Korea's transport ministry said two more U.S. officials arrived late on Tuesday (December 31) to join a team of around two dozen investigators including those from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Federal Aviation Administration, and aircraft maker Boeing. All 175 passengers and four of the six crew were killed on Sunday (December 29) when the Jeju Air plane belly-landed at Muan International Airport, plowed into the sand-and-concrete embankment and burst into a fireball. Investigators are considering possible reasons such as bird strikes and disabled control systems on the aircraft for the pilots' apparent rush to attempt a landing soon after declaring an emergency. (Thumbnail photo: Jung Yeon-je, AFP) For more ABS-CBN News, click the link below: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgyY1WylJUmgG2ln-vtKXb-oLlGEZc3sR Check out the latest news on upcoming Halalan 2022 here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgyY1WylJUmiGdpGgIvyNSlUsnCKyOzAM To watch the latest updates on COVID-19, click the link below: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgyY1WylJUmgUjPkc730KnTVICyQU6gBf Subscribe to the ABS-CBN News channel! - http://bit.ly/TheABSCBNNews Watch the full episodes of TV Patrol on iWantTFC: http://bit.ly/TVPatrol-iWantTFC Visit our website at http://news.abs-cbn.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/abscbnNEWS Twitter: https://twitter.com/abscbnnews #ABS-CBNHighlights #LatestNews #ABSCBNNews