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The dead will be brought to a mortuary at the airport and will be released for burial once the identification process is complete. The number of survivors remains at 2, both crew members, one male and one female, according to the on-site fire service team. “Because it doesn’t appear that there was fire in the extreme tail section, the data should be able to be read out in pretty short order. You’ll have at some point the recordings of the cockpit airplane communication that will help identify what’s going on,” he said.

• Hamilton said the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder are both located in the tail of the airplane, which appears to be relatively in tact.
• In April 1983, Reynolds became ill, leaving both Jennings and Robinson to co-anchor the broadcast until his planned return; however, Reynolds died three months later on July 20, 1983, from bone cancer.
• In South Korea, people gathered at midnight to honor the victims of this weekend’s plane crash at South Korea’s Muan International Airport that killed 179 of the 181 people on board.
• The flight data recorders or so-called “black boxes” offer aviation safety investigators critical facts when piecing together an incident.

Robinson left ABC News in 1984, after stints of anchoring news briefs and the weekend editions of World News Tonight; he died from complications of AIDS in 1988. With Jennings as lead anchor, World News Tonight was the most-watched national newscast from February 27, 1989, to November 1, 1996, but from then on until February 2007, it placed second behind its main rival, NBC Nightly News. Occasional contributions included special reports by Walters, who was credited as anchor of the special coverage desk from New York City and worldwide, and commentary by Smith, who was easing into eventual retirement. The program’s distinct and easily identifiable theme (whose four-note musical signature was eventually used on other ABC News programs) was written by Bob Israel. Ratings slowly climbed to the point where World News Tonight eventually beat both NBC Nightly News and the CBS Evening News, marking the first time ever that ABC had the most-watched network evening newscast.

Rescue workers are focusing on reaching people inside the tail section of the plane. The country’s current president, Yoon Suk Yeol, was stripped of his powers by parliament two weeks ago following a short-lived martial law order that plunged the country into political disarray. The aviation industry is booming in South Korea, as well as Thailand and across Southeast Asia, so regulators have to stay on top of the growth, Schiavo said. The tragedy struck during a busy holiday travel season, noted Schiavo, who spoke from Chiang Mai, Thailand.

⁠The death toll from a plane crash at Muan International Airport in South Korea has risen to 149, according to the fire service. Considering the plane was manufactured outside of South Korea, investigators will need to consult the manufacturers of major parts of the plane, which might mean the investigation takes a long time, the land ministry said. There are also questions around the situation on board the plane, Thomas said, including why the aircraft’s undercarriage was not lifted when it tried to land. The two confirmed survivors of the Jeju Air crash in South Korea were rescued from the plane’s tail section, the only part of the aircraft that retained some of its shape, Muan fire chief Lee Jung-hyun told a briefing. So far, the death toll of the devastating crash stands at 177, the fire service said, leaving just two of the 181 people who were on board the plane unaccounted for.

Both black boxes now recovered from crashed airliner

The final death toll from the plane crash in South Korea is 179, meaning just two people survived, the fire service says. Experts have urged local officials, who are facing demands for answers from loved ones of those killed in the aviation disaster, not to speculate on its cause until more information is available. A man who witnessed Sunday’s plane crash in Muan, South Korea, said he is “devastated” by the disaster, describing the scene of the accident to Reuters.

The youngest passenger on board the Jeju Air flight which crash-landed on Sunday at Muan International Airport was a three-year-old child, and the oldest was a 78-year-old, according to the fire The Bellows service, citing the passenger manifest. South Korea’s acting President Choi Sang-mok has declared a week-long mourning period from Sunday to January 4, following the deadly airliner crash at Muan International Airport. Moments before the Jeju Air flight crash-landed, a passenger on board texted their friend to say a bird struck the plane, according to messages widely shared in South Korean media, including CNN affiliate JTBC. Im Young Hak, who owns a seafood restaurant near the site of the crash, told Reuters he saw “a big dark smoke” and heard multiple explosions around 9 a.m.

“In fact, that’s why it’s so protected when there is an aircraft accident investigation, the information is protected. They’re not supposed to be making any speculation about this type of thing,” Soucie told CNN’s Paula Newton. Most of the remaining passengers and crew are presumed dead, according to the fire service.

The dead included 47 males, 48 females and one child whose gender is unconfirmed. Kim offered his “deepest condolences” to the families of those who died in the accident. Among those killed, 54 are male and 57 are female, while the gender of 11 remains undetermined, according to the authorities. Just two people have been pulled alive from the wreckage and rescuers have warned there is little chance of finding any more survivors. Among the total, 71 are male and 69 are female, while the gender of nine deceased has not been confirmed, as the bodies of the victims were so badly damaged, according to the authority.

Jeju Air crash is deadliest aviation disaster to hit South Korea since 1997

Sunday’s air disaster in South Korea is “very perplexing” given that both the aircraft and carrier have a strong safety record and flying conditions were excellent, an aviation journalist told CNN. The death toll from a plane crash at Muan International Airport in South Korea has risen to 122, with only two survivors according to the South Jeolla Fire Service. The flight data recorders or so-called “black boxes” offer aviation safety investigators critical facts when piecing together an incident.

Images of the crash published by the Yonhap news agency showed only the tail section of the plane intact, surrounded by flames. Emergency responders said they had rescued two people from the plane, according to the fire department. The former prosecutor has been banned from leaving the country and is facing a string of investigations, including potential charges of leading an insurrection – a crime punishable by life imprisonment or even the death penalty. Han Duck-soo, the man who stepped in to replace Yoon as acting president, was impeached by parliament on Friday.

Jennings died of lung cancer on August 7, 2005, at his apartment in New York City, at age 67. This was succeeded by After the Deadlines in 1951 and All Star News in 1952. In the fall of 1953, John Daly began anchoring the then-15-minute John Daly and the News. Contemporaneously, anchored the newscast until 1960, with multiple hosts and formats succeeding him. Most of the remaining passengers and crew are presumed dead, according to an earlier update from the fire service. Hamilton said the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder are both located in the tail of the airplane, which appears to be relatively in tact.