(30 Dec 2024)
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Muan, South Korea – 31 December 2024
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1. Various of plane wreckage
2. Pan from plane wreckage to further debris in area outside airport fence
3. Yellow flags marking where debris found
4. Wreckage outside airport fence
5. Plane wreckage
STORYLINE:
Investigators early on Tuesday continued to search the wreckage of the Jeju Air plane that crashed in southern South Korea, killing 179 people.
The Boeing 737-800 plane operated by budget airline Jeju Air came down with its front landing gear closed and struck a concrete fence at Muan International Airport on Sunday.
After an initial failed landing attempt, the plane received a bird strike warning from the ground control center.
The pilot then issued a distress signal before the plane came down with its front landing gear closed, overshot the runway, slammed into the fence and burst into a fireball.
The crash was South Korea’s worst aviation disaster in decades, and also the year’s deadliest plane crash worldwide.
It sent a shock wave through South Korean society, which is already facing a political crisis that led to the successive impeachments of the president and prime minister.
AP video by Johnson Lai
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