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Jeju Air plane crashes upon landing in South Korea, 179 on board confirmed dead
A Jeju Air plane carrying 181 people from Thailand to South Korea crashed on arrival on Dec 29, smashing into a barrier and bursting into flames, leaving all but two dead, reported AFP.
South Korea’s Acting President Choi Sang-mok has declared a seven-day national mourning period until Jan 4, following an emergency meeting.
A bird strike and adverse weather conditions were cited by the authorities as likely causes of the crash that flung passengers out of the plane and left it “almost completely destroyed”, according to fire officials.
Video showed the Jeju Air plane from Bangkok landing on its belly at Muan International Airport, skidding off the runway as smoke streamed out from the engines, before crashing into a wall and exploding in flames.
“Passengers were ejected from the aircraft after it collided with the wall, leaving little chance of survival,” a local fire official told families at a briefing, according to a statement released by the fire brigade.
“The plane is almost completely destroyed, and identifying the deceased is proving difficult. The process is taking time as we locate and recover the remains,” he was quoted as saying.
Only two people were rescued, both flight attendants, and more than 174 people were confirmed dead by late afternoon, the fire department said in a statement.
The two crew members were being treated at hospitals with medium to severe injuries, said the head of the local public health centre.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/e...shes-at-airport-in-south-korea-yonhap-reports
Updated 2:
Death toll from Jeju Air crash in South Korea crosses 120
Jeju Air flight 7C2216, carrying 175 passengers and six crew members on a flight from Bangkok, was landing at Muan International Airport when it crashed.At least 124 people were 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 on Sunday (Dec 29), the national fire agency said.
Jeju Air flight 7C2216, arriving from the Thai capital Bangkok with 181 people on board, was attempting to land shortly after 9am (8am, Singapore time) at the airport in the south of the country, South Korea's transport ministry said.
It is the deadliest air accident involving a South Korean airline in nearly three decades, according to ministry data.
The twin-engine Boeing 737-800 can be seen in video from local media skidding down the runway with no apparent landing gear before slamming into a wall in an explosion of flame and debris. Other photos showed smoke and fire engulfing parts of the plane.
Two crew members, a man and a woman, were rescued from the tail section of the burning plane, Muan fire chief Lee Jung-hyun told a briefing. The fire was extinguished as of 1pm, 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 because of the force of the impact, are searching nearby areas for bodies possibly thrown from the plane, Lee added.
The two crew members were being treated at hospitals with medium to severe injuries, said the head of the local public health centre.
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Hours after the crash, 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.
Yonhap news agency cited a fire official as saying most of the 175 passengers and six crew members were presumed dead.
Authorities had worked to rescue people in the tail section, an airport official told Reuters shortly after the crash.
The crash is the worst by any South Korean airline since a 1997 Korean Air crash in Guam that killed more than 200 people, according to transportation ministry data.
Investigators are looking into bird strikes and weather conditions as possible factors, Lee said. Yonhap cited airport authorities as saying a bird strike may have caused the landing gear to malfunction.
The control tower issued a bird strike warning and shortly afterward the pilots declared mayday, a transport ministry official said, without specifying whether the flight said it struck any birds.
About one minute after the mayday call, the aircraft made its ill-fated attempt to land, the official said.
A passenger texted a relative to say a bird was stuck in the wing, the News1 agency reported. The person's final message was, "Should I say my last words?"
The passengers included two Thai nationals and the rest are believed to be South Koreans, according to the transportation ministry.
The Boeing 737-800 jet, operated by Jeju Air, was manufactured in 2009, the transport ministry said.
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Jeju Air CEO Kim E-bae apologised for the accident, bowing deeply during a televised briefing.He said the cause of the crash was still unknown, that the aircraft had no record of accidents and there were no early signs of malfunction.
The airline will cooperate with investigators and make supporting the bereaved its top priority, Kim said.
No abnormal conditions were reported when the aircraft left Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport, said Kerati Kijmanawat, president of Airports of Thailand.
Founded in 2005, Jeju Air is a low-cost airline that operates international routes to Japan, Thailand, and the Philippines, in addition to numerous domestic flights.
Boeing said in a emailed statement: "We are in contact with Jeju Air regarding flight 2216 and stand ready to support them. We extend our deepest condolences to the families who lost loved ones, and our thoughts remain with the passengers and crew."
The US Federal Aviation Administration did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
All domestic and international flights at Muan airport have been cancelled, Yonhap reported
South Korean's Acting President Choi Sang-mok, named interim leader of the country on Friday in an ongoing political crisis, arrived at the scene of the accident and said the government was putting all its resources into dealing with the crash.
Two Thai women were on the plane, aged 22 and 45, Thai government spokesperson Jirayu Houngsub said, adding that details were still being verified.
Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra sent condolences to the families of the dead and injured in a post on X, saying she had instructed the foreign ministry to provide assistance.
The ministry said in a statement it was in touch with the South Korean authorities.
This is the first fatal accident in the history of Jeju Air, one of South Korea's largest low-cost carriers, which was set up in 2005.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/eas...h-muan-international-airport-jeju-air-4829826
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Jeju Air plane crashes while landing in South Korea; 28 dead
A commercial airplane carrying 175 passengers and 6 crew members reportedly crashed during landing in South Korea, according to media reports. At least 28 deaths have been confirmed so far.Jeju Air Flight 2216, a Boeing 737-800 traveling from Bangkok, Thailand, crashed while landing at Muan Airport in southern South Korea, according to Yonhap and FlightAware. So far, 28 fatalities have been reported, with at least two survivors rescued.
Dramatic footage showed the moments of the catastrophic crash.
Preliminary reports suggest that the crash was caused by a landing gear failure resulting from a bird strike, Yonhap reported. Footage showing the aftermath of the crash showed the plane completely destroyed.
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Around 9.07am today, a plane crash occurred at Muan International Airport in Jeollanam-do, South Korea. According to Jeonnam Yonhap, Jeju Air flight 7C 2216, which had flown in from Bangkok, Thailand, with 175 passengers and six flight attendants aboard, veered off the runway. The Boeing 737-800 aircraft from Jeju Air, carrying 175 passengers and crew, crashed at Muan International Airport in South Korea. The incident is believed to have been caused by landing gear malfunction following a bird strike.
Initial firefighting activities at the crash scene concentrated on extinguishing the aircraft, while rescue efforts prioritised evacuating passengers from the rear section. Yonhap has reported 23 confirmed casualties from the incident, with investigations currently underway.
https://www.dimsumdaily.hk/aircraft...at-muan-international-airport-in-south-korea/
韓國濟洲航空客機降落務安機場時衝出跑道 最少23人死傷
https://www.hk01.com/即時國際/1088959/韓媒-韓國濟洲航空客機降落務安機場時衝出跑道-最少23人死傷
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