A South Korean passenger jet crashed and burst into flames on landing, killing 179 people.
One hundred and seventy-nine people were killed on Sunday morning as a South Korea n passenger jet crashed and burst into flames on landing, according to local authorities, in one of the country’s worst aviation disaster s. The Jeju Air flight was returning from Bangkok with 181 people on board when it failed to deploy its landing gear, skidding down the runway before it struck a wall and was engulfed in fire at Muan international airport in the south of the country.
Two crew members were rescued from the aircraft’s tail, according to the national fire agency, but all the other people on the flight were later confirmed to have been killed, officials told South Korea’s Yonhap news agency. Of the 175 passengers, 173 were South Korean, while the remaining two were Thai nationals, according to the transportation ministry. There were six crew members on board. The disaster is the worst commercial aviation accident since the crash of Indonesia’s Lion Air Flight 610 in 2018, which killed 189 people, according to the Aviation Safety Network. South Korea’s acting president Choi Sang-mok — who assumed office on Friday after his predecessor was impeached by parliament — vowed to “dig into the cause and take steps to prevent any recurrence of similar accidents”. “This is a grave situation. We will do our utmost to cope with the damage,” he said from the scene of the crash. Local television news footage showed thick smoke billowing from the wreckage of the aircraft, a twin-engined Boeing 737-800 jet. The transport ministry said the airport’s control tower had issued a bird strike warning about a minute before the pilots called mayday. The crash occurred five minutes later. Ministry officials said they had retrieved the plane’s flight data and cockpit voice recorders in their investigation into the crash. The pilot was a veteran with a flight record of more than 6,800 hours. Muan airport would remain closed until January 1, the ministry said
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