The plane crash at Muan Airport in South Jeolla Province...175 passengers on board

■ Host: anchor Lee Ha-rin, anchor Cho Jin-hyuk
■ Starring: Jung Kwang-soo screen informant

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[Anchor]
We will connect the witnesses and hear from the witnesses about the accident at the time. Is Mr. Jung Kwang-soo here?

[Interview]
Hello.

[Anchor]
You were around the airport at the time of the accident, right?

[Interview]
is correct. I'm currently living in front of the airport. Around 9 o'clock, I banged with a roar and opened the long door just in case, and the smoke like a fire column came up badly. So I waited because I thought I had misread it, and I heard sirens, and when I went to the scene, it was really chaotic.

[Anchor]
You heard the roar right now, so before the collision, are you saying that you heard the roar from the process of lowering the altitude?

[Interview]
From falling to the floor, a roaring sound followed by a column of fire. And then black smoke kept coming out. [Anchor] You said you approached the scene of the fire and saw it yourself, what was the situation like?

[Interview]
This is a one-lane road. It is controlled in both directions as it is now, but there seem to be people watching and bereaved families. I'm still watching it. The current situation is that you can only see the tail. There are still too many people right now.

[Anchor]
If so, is the rescue work busy now?The

[Interview]
structure is continuing.

[Anchor]
I hope to hear a lot about rescuers. First of all, let's go back to the situation at the time of the accident. The teacher said that it seems like there was a roar as it fell to the floor, but from what has been said, it is presumed that a fire broke out when the aircraft hit the wall. Please tell me the situation again when you arrived at that time.

[Interview]
When we arrived, only the tail was raised and there was a lot of fire. Fire trucks were putting out the fire. The black smoke of the fire continued to roar, and even after 50 minutes, the black smoke and fire were not 100% contained. In the current situation, the fire seems to have been completely caught with the naked eye. I can only see the state of the tail now.

[Anchor]
Except for the tail part, the remaining part was damaged. Do you think it was at the time of the accident?

[Interview]
Yes, that seems to be the case.

[Anchor]
Since we only deliver officially confirmed information on the report, we are also talking very carefully about the scale of casualties. However, since you are at the scene, it would be nice to tell us what kind of casualties or the atmosphere of the accident site. What do you think?

[Interview]
In the current situation, so many people from all over the place are out to see. I'm controlling it now, and there are a lot of various filming, and the rescue is still taking place. The situation in front is being observed from 300m ahead.

[Anchor]
Except for the tail part, the remaining part is damaged, and survivors are being rescued from the tail part and the rear part. If so, passengers were driven to the rear exit when the accident occurred, can we see it like this?

[Interview]
If you look at the runway here, there is a second lane toward the beach. From that part, you can observe it directly from about 300m with the naked eye. Fire trucks have a side road to that side street. There are a lot of fire trucks and general self-driving cars. First of all, it's too complicated because all the cars are parked on the shoulder on the two-lane road, even in the current situation.

[Anchor]
And if you look at the sightings of other informants, there is an informant who said that when the plane passed by, you could see flames from the air. Did you happen to witness that, too?

[Interview]
I didn't hear it, but the residents who work here said that the plane lowered the altitude once and fell, then went up once and went down once.
I witnessed both the roar and the sound at the same time, but he went up and down and there was a roar.

[Anchor]
I'm sure you're hearing a lot of stories at the scene, do you hear anything about the presumed cause of the accident?

[Interview]
There is no word on the cause of the accident. For now, we are only working hard on the rescue.

[Anchor]
Suppression and rescue work will be the most important right now, but we're looking at it on the screen, but the debris is scattered.

[Interview]
It seems that the firefighters are working at about 50m horizontally. toward the paddy fields So, the firefighters are conducting a search operation in a row of about 50 meters toward the front of the plane, in case debris or something like that popped out.

[Anchor]
As we zoomed in a little bit on the scene of the accident and looked at it closely, we couldn't get a sense of it overall. If I think that I crashed into a wall on the outer wall of the airport, should I understand that the airport as a whole hit the wall just before leaving the airport?

[Interview]
is correct. The distance from Muan Airport to the wall is about 800m to 1km from the control tower. This is the starting point of the runway.There is a wall right at the starting point of the
race. The wall appears to have collapsed on the wall with the naked eye.

[Anchor]
Once again, I'll ask you in detail because what you're telling me about that time will help you estimate the cause of such accidents in the future, whether it's the fire authorities or the police. When you first saw it, the plane hit the wall with a bang, so could you explain in detail the situation immediately after that?

[Interview]
Immediately after that, I was in a fairly close area. Since I lived in Mangon-myeon, when I moved to the vehicle after about 30 minutes from that location, there were a lot of people. At that time, we were in a situation where we were suppressing it. Fire trucks were out and they were suppressing it, and they couldn't see it at all inside, only the tail part, and even now, only the tail part was raised, but they were continuously suppressing it. I was so surprised by the sound that I was also distracted.

[Anchor]
It's a situation where all the flames are out right now, right?

[Interview]
As of now, the fire is completely extinguished. Currently, only the wreckage and the tail of the plane model are visible.

[Anchor]
The video shows the plane moving at the time of the accident, so I'm showing it again. The video was cut off in the middle.The plane is flying at a high speed. It looks like you're trying to land the fuselage right now.

[Anchor]
Informant, are you watching this screen?

[Interview]
I'm at the scene.

[Anchor]
We're showing you the scene where we're landing right now. Originally, the landing gear, or the landing wheel, is supposed to be down at the front of the aircraft fuselage, but we have secured the video at the time of the accident and are showing it to you now. After that, the fire soared. If you show me again, I saw that the plane lowered its altitude at a high speed and then almost hit the ship on the runway, coming quickly with a sense of rubbing and eventually hitting the wall.

So, the landing gear has to come down from the front of the plane to land normally, so take a closer look. When the plane passes from the front, the wheel does not appear to have come down in the front. As I slipped like this, I saw smoke coming from behind and crashing into the wall. I think the informant saw the image right after. So, as I left the runway like this, I hit the outer wall of the fence, but I wonder how big a collision it was, so many times it broke and became half-wave, and the fire soared. Please explain the situation again at that time. You said there was a roar and the fire soared right away, so please sort out the situation at that time.

[Interview]
There was a loud roar. After the loud roar, I checked outside and found that a fire column was up. The fire column was up, so black smoke and flames continued to rise. At that time, I had another mission, so I came here about 30 minutes after the mission. The sound of fire trucks and people around me were constantly watching it. So it was such a complicated situation that I briefly fell outside and then came back to the scene.

[Anchor]
Thank you for connecting with me while I'm not in the situation. It was Jung Kwang Soo.