According to news reports, the only two survivors aboard the 181-passenger plane that crashed in South Korea were lucky and were able to save their lives because of their seating arrangement.
The lucky flight attendants – a man and a woman – were reportedly sitting in the tail section of the Jeju airliner that landed at Muan International Airport on Sunday after taking off from Bangkok, Thailand.
As the plane touched down on the runway, it veered off and crashed into a wall. explodes into flames.
Muan firefighters responded and eventually extinguished the flames. The tail section was the only part of the aircraft that remained intact, the rest was destroyed.
In 2015, Time magazine published data from the Federal Aviation Administration that showed that back seats — like those in the back — are generally safest in a plane crash.
Statistics show that the death rate in the seats in the back third of the aircraft is 32 percent, in the middle third and 38 percent in the front third.
Accordingly The Korea TimesLee Mo – one of the survivors – could only remember buckling his seatbelt just before landing, then waking up in a hospital bed and asking, “Where am I?”…What happened?”
179 people died in the crash and the cause is still under investigation… and as we told you, air traffic controllers alerted the crew to the plane's misfortune a bird strike before putting on.
The air disaster in South Korea is considered the worst in decades.