A Jeju Air flight en route from Bangkok to South Korea crashed upon landing at Muan International Airport, resulting in at least 124 fatalities. The Boeing 737-800 lost its landing gear and veered off the runway, erupting into flames upon impact. Authorities are investigating potential causes, including bird strikes and weather conditions.
At least 124 people have been killed when an airliner landed without wheels, veering off the runway and erupting in a fireball as it slammed into a wall at South Korea ’s Muan International Airport. Jeju Air flight 7C2216, arriving from the Thai capital Bangkok with 181 people on board, was attempting to land on Sunday morning at the airport in the south of the country, South Korea ’s transport ministry said.
It’s the deadliest air accident involving a South Korean airline in nearly three decades, according to ministry data. Video from local media shows the twin-engine Boeing 737-800 skidding down the runway with no apparent landing gear before slamming into a wall in an explosion of flame and debris. Two crew members, a man and a woman, were rescued from the tail section, Muan fire chief Lee Jung-hyun told a briefing. The fire was extinguished by the early afternoon, Lee said. “Only the tail part retains a little bit of shape, and the rest of (the plane) looks almost impossible to recognise,” he said. Authorities have switched from rescue to recovery operations, and were searching nearby areas for bodies possibly thrown from the plane, Lee said. The two crew were in hospital with medium to severe injuries, the head of the local public health centre said. Mortuary vehicles were lined up to take bodies away, and authorities said a temporary morgue had been established. The crash site smelled of aviation fuel and blood, according to Reuters witnesses, and workers in protective suits and masks combed the area while soldiers searched through bushes. Most of 175 passengers and six crew were presumed dead, Yonhap news agency reported. The crash is the worst by any South Korean airline since a 1997 Korean Air crash in Guam that killed more than 200 people. Investigators were looking into bird strikes and weather conditions as possible factors, Lee said. Yonhap cited airport authorities as saying a bird strike might have caused the landing gear to malfunctio
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