Published on December 29, 2024 at 5:14 p.m. / Modified on December 29, 2024 at 5:18 p.m.
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On local television video, we see the plane, escorted by a trail of smoke, crash violently into a wall at the end of the runway, immediately catching fire. Impressive, the images left their mark this Sunday, as did the terrible toll of the accident. Around 1 a.m. Swiss time, a Boeing 737-8AS from the Korean low-cost airline Jeju Air, coming from Bangkok, crashed at Muan airport, in the southwest of the country. The crash killed 179 people, the majority of them Koreans returning home after the holidays – only two people, flight attendants, survived the impact. It is the first fatal accident in the history of Jeju Air, one of South Korea’s largest low-cost airlines, and the worst air disaster in the country’s history. More generally, Flight 2216 is currently the deadliest plane accident of this decade.
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