A passenger jet crash-landed in South Korea, resulting in multiple fatalities. The aircraft experienced a landing gear malfunction, leading to a belly landing and subsequent fire. While two crew members survived, the outlook for other passengers remains grim.
Scores of people were killed when the passenger jet crash-landed at an airport in south-western South Korea , with the aircraft careening down the runway on its belly before bursting into flames. Two people, both crew members, were pulled alive from the crash site but rescuers warned there was little hope of finding further survivors.The accident was caused by a landing gear malfunction, officials said.
Footage of Sunday's crash broadcast by multiple South Korean news outlets showed the plane sliding on its belly at high speed, hitting an earthen embankment and erupting in a fireball. Neither the back nor front landing gear was visible in the footage – broadcast by networks including YTN, JTBC and MBC – as smoke poured from the back of the sliding aircraft.Firefighters were later seen using water cannons to extinguish the blazing wreckage of the aircraft, which was listed as a Boeing 737-800 on flight-tracking site FlightAware.Both of the survivors were crew members, one male and one female, according to the rescue team. Two Thai nationals were among those on board, according to the South Korean Land Ministry, which said officers from the national Incident Investigation Committee had arrived to look into what caused the accident.Rescue workers will search for the 'black box' flight data recorders after recovering the bodies of the remaining victims, the Transport Ministry said in a briefing. The recorders offer aviation safety investigators critical facts when piecing together what happened after an incident. More than 700 personnel from the police, military, and coast guard have been mobilised for on-site response efforts, the ministry added.South Korea's acting president said the site of Sunday's plane crash has been declared a special disaster zone as he vowed a full investigation into what caused the deadly disaster. 'We will concentrate all resources on recovery and support for the victim
AIRCRAFT CRASH SOUTH KOREA FATALITIES LANDING GEAR MALFUNCTION BOEING 737
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