Firefighters perform extinguishing operations on an plane which drove off runaway at Muan Worldwide Airport in Muan, South Jeolla Province, South Korea, on Dec. 29, 2024.
Yonhap | By way of Reuters
No less than 28 individuals had been killed when an airliner went off the runway and slammed right into a wall at South Korea’s Muan Worldwide Airport on Sunday, Yonhap information company reported.
The accident occurred because the Jeju Air airplane, carrying 175 passengers and 6 crew on a flight from the Thai capital Bangkok, was touchdown on the airport within the south of the nation, the report mentioned.
Two individuals had been discovered alive and rescue operations had been nonetheless below manner, a Muan fireplace official mentioned. The official couldn’t verify the reviews of 28 lifeless.
Authorities had been working to rescue individuals within the tail part, an airport official informed Reuters.
Video shared by native media confirmed the twin-engine plane skidding down the runway with no obvious touchdown gear earlier than slamming right into a wall in an explosion of flame and particles. Different photographs confirmed smoke and fireplace engulfing elements of the airplane.
Appearing President Choi Sang-mok, who was named interim chief of the nation on Friday after the earlier performing president was impeached amid an ongoing political disaster, ordered all-out rescue efforts, his workplace mentioned.
A Jeju Air spokesperson mentioned the airline was checking the reviews.
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