JAKARTA - South Korea extended the closure of Muan International Airport which was the location of the Jeju Air plane crash, while all the bodies of the victims were ready to be handed over to their families or relatives.
Acting Minister of Home Affairs Ko Ki-dong said the government would complete the handover of the entire 179 bodies of victims of the Jeju Air plane crash that killed their families and relatives on Monday.
Ko conveyed this in a government response meeting, saying that search and recovery efforts at the accident site had reached the final stage.
He said the government would "continue to provide support after the funeral," adding preparations were underway to establish an organization to support the bereaved family.
The Boeing 737-800 aircraft belonging to Jeju Air airline with flight number 7C2216 and registration of HL8088 from Suvarnabhumi International Airport, Thailand had a fatal accident while landing at Muan International Airport, South Korea on December 29.
The plane carrying 175 passengers and six crew members on the flight turned into fireball after making an emergency landing and hitting the concrete structure. Only two crew members survived the incident.
Meanwhile, the South Korean government said on Monday that it would extend the closure of Muan International Airport for a week to January 14, considering ongoing investigations into the crash of Jeju Air.
Originally, the airport was planned to reopen on Tuesday.
A joint investigative team stepped up investigations into the deadliest air accident in South Korea.
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Meanwhile, two investigators from South Korea will depart for the United States with flight data recorders to be analyzed by the US National Transportation Safety Council today.
It is known that flight data recorders, along with the cockpit voice recorder, are two black boxes containing important information about the crash.
Earlier, investigators on Saturday collected a full transcript of a cockpit voice recorder found from the ruins of Jeju Air. It is not yet clear whether they will reveal the transcript.
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