The investigation into the crash of a South Korea passenger jet gathered pace on Wednesday as bereaved families began to prepare funerals after authorities finished formally identifying the 179 victims of the country's worst air disaster.

Travelers concerned about aviation safety after the crash in South Korea are wondering where the safest seats on a plane are.

A flight attendant, one of just two survivors of the Jeju Air plane crash in South Korea on Sunday that killed 179 people, is awake and talking, a hospital official said.

South Korea’s effort to find the cause of the country’s deadliest plane crash that killed 179 people made some headway on Tuesday, as authorities started extracting data from the Boeing Co. 737-800 aircraft’s cockpit voice recorder.