A Jeju Air flight from Bangkok to Muan International Airport crashed on landing Sunday, resulting in a catastrophic fire and numerous fatalities. The cause of the crash is believed to be a bird strike and adverse weather conditions.
A Jeju Air plane carrying 181 people from Thailand to South Korea crashed on arrival Sunday, smashing into a barrier and bursting into flames, leaving all but two feared dead. A bird strike and adverse weather conditions were cited by 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 124 people were confirmed dead by mid-afternoon, the fire department said in a statement. An AFP photographer saw the burned-out wreckage of the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 aircraft on the runway at Muan -- some 288 kilometres (about 180 miles) southwest of Seoul -- as firefighters and emergency vehicles worked nearby.The accident took place in a matter of minutes from 9:03 am (0003 GMT) on Sunday during the landing of Jeju Air Flight 2216, the Ministry of Land said, with 175 passengers, including two Thai nationals, and six crew onboard.'It took approximately three minutes from the control tower's mention of a bird strike warning to the aircraft's attempt to land on the runway again,' it said.When asked if the accident happened due to the runway being too short -- video shows the plane coming off the tarmac and hitting a wall -- the official said this was likely not a facto
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