When South Korea's acting President Choi Sang-mok arrived at the scene of the deadliest air disaster on the country's soil on Sunday, he had been on the job for less than 48 hours.

An aircraft carrying 181 people has crashed at an airport in South Korea, killing at least 28 people, the Yonhap news agency reports. The aircraft drove off a runway and crashed into a wall at Muan International Airport in the south west of the country, the South Korean news agency reports.

Boeing has issued a statement after one of its 737-800 jets crash landed in South Korea on Sunday, killing at least 127 people. In a statement posted to X, the airplane manufacturer said it was in contact with the airline Jeju Air and was "ready to support them."