Relatives of passengers aboard the doomed Jeju Air plane wait anxiously at Muan International Airport for news and identification of their loved ones. The Boeing 737-800 crash has led to a grim recovery operation, with authorities facing immense challenges in identifying victims due to the severity of the damage to the remains. Families are desperate for closure, hoping to hold funerals and mourn properly.
Relatives of passengers on the doomed Jeju Air plane comfort each other at Muan International Airport , South Korea . - Photo: AFP
"I apologise deeply... but the extent of the damage to the bodies is profound," an official told families at a briefing Monday, trying to explain the immense hurdles facing workers trying to recover remains while also preserving crash-site evidence. "We estimate that we can reconstruct 80 to 90 percent of the bodies if given a period of 10 days," the official said.
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