Over 85 People Killed As Jeju Aircraft Crashed; Two Rescued
“A passenger plane burst into flames Sunday (December 29, 2024) after it skids off a runway at a South Korean airport and slammed into a concrete fence when its front landing gear failed to deploy, killing at least 85 people,” officials said, in one of the country’s worst aviation disasters.
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The National Fire Agency said the fire was almost put out but officials were still trying to pull people from the Jeju Air passenger plane carrying 181 people at the airport in the town of Muan, about 290 kilometers (180 miles) south of Seoul.
Emergency workers pulled out two people — one passenger and one crew member. It said it deployed 32 fire trucks and several helicopters to contain the fire.
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Footage of the crash aired by media showed the Jeju Air plane skidding across the airstrip, apparently with its landing gear still closed, and colliding head-on with a concrete wall on the outskirts of the facility. The transport ministry said the incident happened at 9:03 am local time.
Emergency officials said they were examining the cause of the fire. They said the plane’s landing gear appeared to have malfunctioned. The Transport Ministry said the plane was returning from Bangkok and its passengers included two Thai nationals.
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It’s one of the deadliest disasters in South Korea’s aviation history. The last time South Korea suffered a large-scale air disaster was in 1997, when a Korean Airlines plane crashed in Guam, killing 228 people on board.
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