Jeju Air flight attendants' miraculous survival after plane crashes and explodes killing everyone else
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The only two survivors of the doomed Jeju Air flight into South Korea are being treated in hospital after the crash and subsequent explosion killed everyone else onboard. One of the flight attendants, who was stationed at the rear of the plane to tend to passengers awoke in hospital following the crash earlier today. The Yonhap news agency said the 33-year-old man, known as Lee, was rushed to hospital near Mokpo, just south of Seoul, but transferred him to the university hospital in the capital.
Ewha Womans University Seoul Hospital director Ju Woong said he told staff: "When I woke up, I had already been rescued." He added Lee was "fully able to communicate" and that there was no indication of memory loss. He remains in intensive care after he was diagnosed with having suffered multiple fractures and being at a risk of paralysis. A female flight attendant, aged 25, is also understood to be the only other survivor of South Korea's worst air disaster in decades.
The South Korean government has started releasing some of the names of those confirmed to have died in the crash. Some of the families that had gathered protested the names did not align with those that had been released previously, according to The Korea Herald.
Others complained that they did not receive enough information about what happened for several hours. One family member, who was not named by the outlet, said: "Is it too much to ask for a list of the dead to be put up clearly along with the current status of the accident?".
