A Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 en route from Bangkok to South Korea crashed at Muan airport, resulting in 179 fatalities and only two survivors. The aircraft skidded off the runway, hit a barrier, and caught fire. Investigations are underway to determine the cause of the crash.
A Jeju Air flight skidded off a runway before crashing into a concrete barrier and bursting into flames at an airport in South Korea . The crash on Sunday killed 179 people on board. Only two survived, a man and a woman who were both crew members. Footage aired by South Korea n television channels showed the plane skidding — and apparently without its landing gear deployed. The jet overran the runway and hit a barrier, triggering a fiery explosion.
Footage showed thick plumes of smoke billowing from the plane, which was engulfed in flames. The plane involved was a 15-year-old Boeing 737-800 passenger jet. It was arriving from Bangkok when the crash happened at 9:03 a.m. local time near the town of Muan, which is about 180 miles south of Seoul. Kyle Bailey, former an FAA safety team representative in the U.S., told Fox News that it appeared to him that the aircraft was traveling too fast as it skidded on the runway before striking what he believed was a structure that housed instrument landing equipment. 'I think that’s pretty much what spelled disaster for that airplane,' he said. Flight data and cockpit voice recorders of the plane's black box have been retrieved by workers. They will be examined by government experts investigating the cause of the crash and fire, Senior Transport Ministry official Joo Jong-wan said. While it will likely take months to determine the cause of the crash, Lee Jeong-hyeon, chief of the Muan fire station, said workers were looking into various possibilities, including whether the aircraft was struck by birds. President Biden issued a statement about the crash on Sunday, offering assistance from the U.S., if necessar
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