South Korea’s Jeju Air, a passenger plane carrying 181 people has crashed while landing at an airport in southwestern South Korea on Sunday.
Officials said most of the people on board were presumed dead, even as two survivors were found and search efforts continued.
The passenger plane was landing when it went off the runway in Muan, in the country’s southwest.
The flight came from Bangkok and was carrying 181 people.
The plane, operated by South Korea’s Jeju Air, was landing at Muan International Airport when the crash occurred, local fire department officials said.
Footage of the accident shows a white-and-orange plane speeding down a runway on its belly until it overshoots the runway, hitting a barrier and exploding into an orange fireball.
The cause was not immediately clear. Officials were investigating what caused the plane to crash-land, including the possibility of a bird strike leading to a landing gear malfunction, said Ju Jong-wan, a director of aviation policy at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.
