Anguish for South Korea plane crash relatives amid grim salvage
Raw StoryCries of anguish echoed through a lounge at Muan International Airport in South Korea on Monday as families waited for news of relatives killed in the weekend's Jeju Air plane crash. 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 want the authorities to bring our loved ones back, even if they are only 80 percent intact," Park Han-shin, who represents the victims’ relatives, told reporters. "The temperature is rising rapidly, even though it is winter, which could lead to a situation where the remains decompose quickly," he said, calling for stepped-up search efforts in the crash zone.