A Jeju Air flight was forced to turn back shortly after takeoff due to a landing gear problem, just a day after a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 crashed in South Korea, killing 179 people.
A Jeju Air flight has been forced to turn around after experiencing landing gear issues just a day after South Korea 's deadliest airline disaster in decades. The Boeing 737-800 involved in the latest incident was the same model as the Jeju Air plane that crashed on Sunday, killing 179 people after coming down without its landing gear engaged.
Families have faced an agonising wait for confirmation that their loved ones were among those killed in yesterday's crash, with officials painstakingly sorting through more than 600 body parts, trying to match them together, according to reports. At the crash site early Monday, a middle-aged man and woman kept their gaze fixed through the fence, where remnants of the plane - seats, gates, and twisted metal parts - were still scattered across the field near the charred tail. The smell of blood continues to hang in the air as soldiers carefully comb through a field of reeds next to the runway, engaged in an apparent search for body parts. The flight, which had been carrying 181 people from Thailand to South Korea made a mayday call and belly-landed before crashing into a barrier and bursting into flames. Everyone on board Jeju Air Flight 2216 was killed, save two flight attendants who were pulled from the burning wreckage. The youngest victim was a three-year-old boy. This morning, another Jeju Air flight departed Seoul's Gimpo International Airport for Jeju island, but was forced to turn around after a landing gear issue was detected shortly after takeoff, the South Korean airline sai
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