(1 Jan 2025)
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Muan airport, South Korea – 01 January 2025
1. Various of family members of people who died in a plane fire visiting the crash site, some praying
2. Various of plane wreckage
3. Family members at crash site
4. Crashed plane
5. Crews, vehicle at crash site
STORYLINE:
Relatives of the victims of a fatal plane fire in South Korea on Wednesday visited Muan airport, the site of the disaster.
All but two of the 181 people aboard the Boeing 737-800 operated by South Korean budget airline Jeju Air died in Sunday’s crash.
Video showed the aircraft, without its landing gear deployed, crash-landed on its belly and overshoot a runaway at South Korea’s southern Muan International Airport before it slammed into concrete fence and burst into a flame.
The plane was seen having an engine trouble, and preliminary examinations also say the pilots received a bird strike warning from the ground control center and issued a distress signal as well.
But many experts say the landing gear issue was likely the main cause of the crash.
The South Korean government has launched safety inspections on all the 101 Boeing 737-800s in the country.
The Transport Ministry said authorities are looking at maintenance and operation records during five days of safety checks that are to run until Friday.
The crash was the deadliest disaster in South Korea’s aviation history in decades. A seven-day national mourning has been declared until Jan. 4.
AP Video shot by Johnson Lai
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