The flight was carrying 181 passengers and crew when it belly-landed before slamming into a barrier, killing all aboard except two flight attendants.
SEOUL, South Korea — A plane with malfunctioning landing gear veered off the runway, hit a fence and caught fire Sunday at an airport in southern South Korea, killing at least 28 people, according to the emergency office and local media.
Footage of the crash showed the plane skidding across the airstrip at high speed, evidently with its landing gear still closed, and slamming into a wall.
Acting South Korean President Choi Sang-mok has told emergency responders to use "all available" resources to respond to the crash.
Investigators from the NTSB and Boeing were expected to join the investigation into South Korea's deadliest air crash.
South Korean investigators on Friday began lifting the wreckage of the Jeju Air plane that crashed five days ago, killing 179 people in the worst aviation disaster on its soil,
Thailand’s prime minister ... 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 an Korean Airline plane crashed in Guam, killing 228 people on ...
A plane carrying 181 people crashed while landing, killing most on board. Officials were investigating a possible malfunction with the landing gear and a bird strike.
South Korean police on Thursday, January 2, raided Jeju Air's regional aviation office, the office is in Seoul, and the crash site as a part of the ongoing investigation, reported the news agency AFP.
U.S. investigators are helping South Korea investigate the plane crash on Sunday that killed 179 people on board a plane from Thailand. The team of U.S. investigators will include the National
Families wept and wailed as officials read off the names of the victims who died on Sunday, Dec. 29, at Muan International Airport, where the crash occurred.