SOUTH KOREA: VICTIMS BODIES OF KOREAN AIR LINES (KAL) FLIGHT 801 CRASH IN GUAM ARE FLOWN HOME TO SEOUL/ FAMILIES OF VICTIMS PROTEST AGAINST PHOTOGRAPH OF POLITICANS AT CRASH SITE

Record ID: 995070

  • Title: SOUTH KOREA: VICTIMS BODIES OF KOREAN AIR LINES (KAL) FLIGHT 801 CRASH IN GUAM ARE FLOWN HOME TO SEOUL/ FAMILIES OF VICTIMS PROTEST AGAINST PHOTOGRAPH OF POLITICANS AT CRASH SITE
  • Date: 11th August 1997
  • Summary: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (AUGUST 13, 1997) (KOREAN POOL - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV KOREAN AIR FLIGHT 0.05 2. TRACK COFFINS BEING UNLOADED 0.15 3. SLV COFFIN MOVED/ ZOOMING IN CHAIRMAN AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICIAL OF KOREAN AIR CHO CHOONG-HOON (WEARING GLASSES) 0.34 4. SLV COFFIN BEING MOVED 0.43 5. LV AMBULANCE LEAVING 0.47
  • Embargoed: 25th August 1997 13:00
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  • Location: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
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  • Country: South Korea
  • Reuters ID: LVAC076QSBKYNVWOSZMZQAUQ31X5
  • Story Text:INTRO: A number of bodies of victims of last week's Korean Air Lines crash in Guam have taken their final journey home.

    They were flown to Seoul accompanied by family members who remain visibly distraught after losing their loved ones in the disaster which claimed 226 lives.

    Aluminum caskets carrying the remains of 10 victims were lowered to the runway from a Korean Air Lines (KAL) flight from Guam at Kimpo Airport on Wednesday (August 13).

    Aboard the same aircraft were family members of the victims who clutched pictures of their loved ones, tears running down their faces.

    The ill-fated Boeing 747 Flight 801 was carrying 254 people, mostly South Korean vacationers, when it ploughed into a hillside near Guam's international airport and burst into flames.

    A total of 28 passengers and crew survived the crash but three remain in critical condition at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, which has a state-of-the-art burn treatment centre.

    "We are not sure when the next group of bodies will be brought back," said a KAL official. "The procedure is extremely strict for identifying and returning the bodies, so it could take time." On Tuesday President Kim Young-sam consoled an injured passenger of KAL 801 at the National Medical Center and the Korean Buddhist Chogye Order held a ritual service for the crash victims at Chogey temple.

    Monks and Buddhists laid wreaths on the altar.

    A photo published in daily newspapers of Korean lawmakers posing in front of a KAL jet crash site in Guam, has angered family members and relatives of crash victims, which they contend politicians used as a photo-opportunity.

    Relatives demanded that the names be revealed for punishment and public apology.

    At a Korean Air center, crash victims' family members staged a protest rally on Monday (August 11) accusing the politicians of tactlessness.

    In Guam, the family members were denied access to the crash site.
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