179 people are presumed dead after Jeju Air flight 7C 2216 from Bangkok Boeing plane crashed while landing at Muan airport in South Korea.
More than a hundred passengers have died 179 people are presumed dead after a plane crashed while landing at an airport in South Korea . A Boeing 737-800 flight, operated by airline Jeju Air, had been carrying 181 passengers on board. Jeju Air flight 7C 2216 had been landing at Muan Airport from Bangkok, Thailand at 9am local time, before footage shared online appears to show it coming off the runway and crashing into a wall, before bursting into flames.
It is thought a bird strike or bad weather could have caused the crash In a televised briefing, Lee Jeong-hyun, the chief of Muan fire department, said the tail section of the plane appeared to be intact but ‘one cannot recognise the shape of the rest of the plane’. The exact cause is being investigated. What model was the plane? The plane was a Boeing 737-800 jet operated by Jeju Air.
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