A airplane carrying 181 passengers has crashed at an airport in South Korea, killing at the very least 85 folks, the nation’s hearth service has stated.
The plane got here off the runway and crashed right into a wall at Muan Worldwide Airport within the south west of the nation, the Yonhap information company reported.
The Jeju Air airplane, which was carrying 175 passengers and 6 crew members, was coming back from Bangkok in Thailand and crashed because it was touchdown.
Two folks have been discovered alive thus far and rescue operations had been nonetheless below approach, a hearth official informed the Reuters information company.
Emergency companies had been trying to rescue folks within the tail part of the plane, an airport official stated.
The passengers on board the flight included 173 South Koreans and two Thais, Yonhap reported.
The reason for the crash remains to be not recognized, however native media reported it could have been attributable to birds getting caught within the airplane’s techniques.
In keeping with the Nationwide Hearth Company, the 62 folks killed included 37 ladies and 25 males.
Reuters/YonhapUnverified footage uploaded to social media of the crash – which occurred shortly after 09:00 native time (00:00 GMT) – exhibits the plane skidding off the runway and crashing right into a wall, earlier than a part of it bursts into flames.
Different footage exhibits a big plume of black smoke rising into the sky.
One flight attendant and one passenger have been rescued thus far, South Korea’s hearth company stated in an announcement, including that 80 firefighters and greater than 30 hearth vans had been deployed to the crash web site.
EPAMuan is about 178 miles (288 km) south of the capital, Seoul.
South Korea’s aviation business is taken into account to have a stable observe file for security.
This crash is the primary deadly accident within the historical past of Jeju Air, one in every of South Korea’s largest low-cost airways, which was arrange in 2005.
