Jeju Air Flight 2216 (an introspective look)

Calling this page "In Remembrance" feels weird - as although I may not be involved nor have anyone close to me been involved in this, this crash has had a more profound effect on me than I can admit; to the point that you can consider this crash as an "Inspiration" behind this website, though calling it that just feels distasteful to the people affected by this crash, the lives lost and families separated as a result. However, this feeling of dread and paranoia that this crash has left on me is something I can't really shake off from the back of my head, yet it is this fear that kept me interested in the subjects of this website. Disasters are strangely terrifying and unexpectedly cruel. It is something that can happen to anyone at any time anywhere, yet at the same time, one's life can be so severely impacted in a snap of a finger. Only for it to be forgotten the following week, in place of another disastrous event.

So I want to take a short but introspective look into this event as this crash felt scarily close to home. On the 29th of December, 2024, at the heights of Christmas Eve, Jeju Air Flight 2216 took off from Bangkok, Thailand to South Korea. However, the flight crashed during landing at Muan International Airport, resulting in the deaths of 179 of the 181 people on board. Only two crew members survived. This incident is considered the deadliest aviation disaster in South Korea's history. A truly tragic loss of life - trapped in a white container with little control over the fate of their lives. Furthermore, I can't even imagine how their families must have felt, especially knowing that it is near the start of the new year. People fly out to celebrate with their families, only to be gone the next moment. It's too cruel. Yet that is the reality of any disaster - it is so swift, so sudden, and so unforgiving. All of this to say that these incidents should be recorded so that the stories of the lives lost are not forgetten to time, so that we can learn to prepare and prevent against them in the future no matter how sudden they are, and so that less disaster ends in a tragedy, no matter the odds.