A Jeju Air plane carrying 181 passengers crashed in South Korea, resulting in the deaths of 179 people. The plane attempted to land at Muan International Airport but veered off the runway and crashed. Officials are investigating potential causes, including a bird strike, pilot distress signal, and weather conditions. The plane's black box and cockpit voice recorder have been recovered.
A plane carrying 181 people has crashed in South Korea , killing all but two people on board. It's the country's worst domestic civil aviation disaster , and a special disaster zone has been declared. Here's everything we know. Follow latest: South Korea plane crash What happened? Around midnight UK time a Jeju Air plane carrying 181 people attempted to crash-land at Muan International Airport, about 180 miles south of Seoul.
'They would have decided they didn't have enough time to divert to another aerodrome, and so they took the decision to land at that particular one. 'Then, of course, they ran out of runway and hit a buffer wall right at the end, which caused the actual eruption.' Why was there a wall at the end of the runway? The plane exploded seemingly while colliding with a solid wall at the end of the runway, and experts have questioned why it was there.
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