Accident occurred when the plane was landing at Muan International Airport.
This was reported by URA-Inform with reference to Reuters.
A passenger plane crashed during landing in South Korea. There were 181 people on board the plane, and only two survived. The cause of the plane crash could have been a malfunction of the aircraft's landing gear. The version of adverse weather conditions and a collision with a group of birds during the flight is also being investigated.
As reported by the South Korean Ministry of Transport, the accident The December 29 crash was the deadliest air disaster involving a country's airline in three decades.
“Only the tail section retains a little shape, and the rest of the plane is almost unrecognizable,” — said Muan Fire Chief Lee Jong-hyun.
He noted that his team is searching nearby areas for bodies that may have fallen from the plane. Two crew members who were rescued from the back of the aircraft , were hospitalized with moderate to severe injuries.
It is known that the Boeing 737-800 of Jeju Air, which crashed in South Korea, was taken off the assembly line in 2009.
We recall that earlier it was reported that rescue operations at the site of the missile strike in Krivoy Rog had been completed: the State Emergency Service named the number of victims.
