On December 29th 2024 9am local time, at Muan Airport South Korea.
All passengers and most of the crew on board a Jeju Air flight have died after the plane crash-landed at an airport in South Korea on Sunday.
A total of 179 of the 181 people on board the Boeing 737-800 were killed, with just two survivors, both cabin staff, pulled from the burning wreckage.
The plane landed at Muan International Airport in the country's south, skidding off the runway and crashing into a wall in a fiery explosion.
Flight 2216 was returning from Bangkok, Thailand with six crew and 175 passengers, many of them holidaymakers.
The passengers included 173 South Koreans and two Thai nationals. They were aged between 3 and 78, although most were in their 40s, 50s and 60s, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported.
Footage shared of the crash - which happened shortly after 09:00 local time (00:00 GMT) - showed the aircraft landing without wheels, overshooting the runway and crashing into the airport's perimeter wall, before it exploded into flames.
An investigation into the cause is under way. There had been no initial reports of plane or maintenance problems at take-off.
South Korean transport officials are reporting the plane ran into difficulties approaching landing - with the pilot, who had more than 6,800 hours of flight experience - pulling out of the first attempt due to bird interference.
