Firefighters perform extinguishing operations on an plane which drove off runaway at Muan International Airport in Muan, South Jeolla Province, South Korea, on Dec. 29, 2024.
Yonhap | Via Reuters
At least 28 individuals had been killed when an airliner went off the runway and slammed right into a wall at South Korea’s Muan International Airport on Sunday, Yonhap information company reported.
The accident occurred as Jeju Air flight 7C2216, 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 stated.
Two individuals had been discovered alive and rescue operations had been nonetheless underneath method, a Muan fireplace official stated. The official couldn’t verify the stories of 28 useless.
Authorities had been working to rescue individuals within the tail part, an airport official instructed 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. Other pictures confirmed smoke and fireplace engulfing elements of the airplane.
Aviation monitoring web site FlightRadar24 stated the plane gave the impression to be a Boeing 737-800. Boeing didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration didn’t instantly reply to an e-mail in search of remark.
South Korean performing 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 stated.
His chief of employees convened an emergency assembly.
A Jeju Air spokesperson stated the airline was checking the stories.
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