Details emerge about the passengers killed in the Jeju Air crash, including a three-year-old boy who died on his return flight from a holiday in Thailand.
Victims of one of South Korea 's worst ever plane crash es have been named and pictured for the first time - including a three-year-old boy who was the youngest to perish in the disaster as he returned home from a holiday with his parents. A Jeju Air plane skidded off the runway at Muan airport, 180 miles south of Seoul, before slamming into a concrete barrier and bursting into flames on Sunday after its landing gear apparently failed to deploy.
Almost all of the 181 people aboard the Boeing 737-800 were killed, with only two members of cabin crew - a man and a woman - pulled from the wreckage alive. Five of the people who died in the tragedy were children under the age of 10, with the youngest, a three-year-old, seen in a picture taken just days earlier as he flew to Thailand for his first foreign holiday. The boy's father Kang Ko, 43, and his mother Jin Lee Seon, 37, shared pictures of their trip on Instagram hours before boarding the doomed flight home to South Korea, local media reports. One of the holiday snaps showed their little boy excitedly looking out of the plane window as they flew into Bangkok, while another heartbreaking post showed the toddler with his passport. 'My son is going abroad for the first time on a night flight, and his first passport has no stamp!' Mr Ko captioned the tragic post, which has since been flooded with tributes and messages of condolence for the family. It comes after the final texts sent by a passenger on the doomed flight were revealed, which appear to support theories that the plane was struck by a bird moments before its final descen
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