South Korean Plane Crash Kills 179, Leaves Two Survivors
The Yonhap news agency reported Sunday that an aircraft drove off the runway, crashed into a wall and exploded at Muan International Airport in South Korea, with all but two crew of the 181 on board presumed to have died in the explosion.
A Jeju Air plane carrying 181 people from Thailand to South Korea crashed on arrival Sunday, smashing into a barrier and bursting into flames, killing everyone aboard except for two flight attendants plucked from the wreckage.
A bird strike was cited by authorities as the likely cause of the crash -- the worst ever aviation disaster on South Korean soil -- which flung passengers out of the plane and left it "almost completely destroyed", according to fire officials.