Seoul, South KoreaCNN —
Scores of people were killed on Sunday when a
passenger jet crash-landed at an airport in southwestern South Korea, with the
aircraft careening down the runway on its belly before bursting into flames.
Just two of the 181 people on board the plane
survived, after the deaths of 179 people were confirmed, according to the local
fire department. The two crew members were pulled alive from the crash site.
It is the deadliest aviation disaster to hit South
Korea since 1997, when a Korean Airlines Boeing 747 crashed in the Guam jungle,
with the loss of 228 lives.
What happened?
Jeju Air flight 7C 2216 from Bangkok was carrying 175
passengers and six crew when disaster struck at the airport in Muan county, on
the country’s southwestern tip, just after 9 a.m. local time Sunday (7 p.m. ET
Saturday).
Footage of Sunday’s crash broadcast by multiple South
Korean news outlets showed the plane sliding on its belly at high speed,
hitting an earthen embankment and erupting in a fireball.
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