The accident occurred as Jeju Air flight 7C2216, carrying 175 passengers and six crew members on a flight from Bangkok, was landing at South Korea's Muan Airport.
At least 85 people were killed after a passenger plane veered off a runway at a South Korean airport on Sunday and rammed into a concrete wall, marking one of the country’s worst aviation disasters.
Preliminary reports suggest the Jeju Air passenger plane’s front landing gear failed to deploy as the plane with 181 people aboard was seen skidding across the airstrip with its landing gear closed at the Muan airport, 290km south of the capital seoul.
The death toll is expected to rise as at least 85 people, including 46 women and 39 men, died in the fire, reported South Korea’s National Fire Agency. It said the fire at the site of the plane collision was almost doused but the emergency team was still trying to rescue people from inside the plane.
A passenger and one crew member have been rescued from the tail of the plane and are reported to have sustained mid to severe level injuries. The agency said it has deployed 32 fire trucks and several helicopters to contain the fire.
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