{"id":68633,"date":"2024-12-30T14:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T05:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/30\/jeju-air-flight-7c2216-text-messages-mayday"},"modified":"2024-12-30T14:59:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T05:59:00","slug":"text-messages-a-mayday-and-then-tragedy-the-day-flight-7c2216-was-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68633","title":{"rendered":"Text messages, a mayday and then tragedy: the day flight 7C2216 was lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Families of the dead and missing struggle to come to terms with disaster that struck Jeju Air plane as it was coming in to land at Muan airport<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA bird is stuck in the wing. We can\u2019t land,\u201d one passenger on board the ill-fated Jeju Air flight 7C2216 sent out in a panicked text just before 9am on Sunday morning. \u201cShould I write my final words?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Minutes later, the Boeing 737-800 carrying 181 people veered off the runway and burst into flames, resulting in South Korea\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/29\/south-korea-jeju-air-plane-crash-mourning\">deadliest aviation disaster<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/30\/jeju-air-flight-7c2216-text-messages-mayday\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Families of the dead and missing struggle to come to terms with disaster that struck Jeju Air plane as it was coming in to land at Muan airport\u201cA bird is stuck in the wing. We can\u2019t land,\u201d one passenger on board the ill-fated Jeju Air flight 7C2216 sen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2929,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376,41,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-transport","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2929"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68634,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68633\/revisions\/68634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}