A dog whose family perished in the passenger airplane crash at South Korea's Muan International Airport on Dec. 29 will find a new home after wandering the streets alone following the death of his family;
South Korean police on Thursday, January 2, raided Jeju Air's regional aviation office, the office is in Seoul, and the crash site as a part of the ongoing investigation, reported the news agency AFP.
Officials are investigating the cause of the deadliest aircraft crash in South Korean history, which killed 179 people.
The flight, operated by Jeju Air, was landing when it went off the runway in Muan, in the country’s southwest. Only two people survived the crash.
A dog named Pudding has been faithfully waiting for its family, unaware that they will never return home after they were killed in South Korea’s worst air disaster. Among the 179 victims of the Jeju Air Flight 112 catastrophe on Sunday were all nine members of its family.
Footage of the crash showed the plane skidding across the airstrip at high speed, evidently with its landing gear still closed, and slamming into a wall.
South Korean investigators on Friday began lifting the wreckage of the Jeju Air plane that crashed five days ago, killing 179 people in the worst aviation disaster on its soil,
Just two survivors were rescued from the wreckage of the passenger plane, which had been returning from Thailand.
Jeju Air’s passenger plane smashed into a concrete wall after an emergency landing at Muan international airport in South Korea
Acting South Korean President Choi Sang-mok has told emergency responders to use "all available" resources to respond to the crash.
Investigators from the NTSB and Boeing were expected to join the investigation into South Korea's deadliest air crash.
Acting South Korean President Choi Sang-mok has told emergency responders to use "all available" resources to respond to the crash.