The incident occurred on Sunday, September 29, in southwest South Korea. The latest death toll of 120 is provisional for the moment.
A plane carrying 181 people suffered a serious accident when landing at Muan airport, South Korea. According to information from Monde which quotes the AFP, the machine caught fire upon its arrival on the tarmac before colliding with an obstacle and being engulfed by flames.
The South Korean news agency Yonhap specifies that the plane belonged to the company Jeju Air and arrived from Bangkok. On a video broadcast by national media, we see the aircraft landing on its belly due to a possible malfunction in its landing gear, then ending its course against a barrier. The latest human toll shows at least 120 dead, including two survivors, out of a total of 175 passengers and six crew members.
First fatal accident for the company
“The plane is almost completely destroyed and the identification of the deceased is proving difficult,” according to one of the firefighters on site. The World also reports that all of the passengers were South Korean, with the exception of two Thai people. And Jeju Air suffered its first fatal accident since its creation in 2005.
Faced with the scale of the event, interim South Korean President Choi Sang-mok called an emergency government meeting on Sunday, December 29, to try to save those on board. This incident comes as the country is plunged into a deep political crisis caused by the recently deposed president, who chose to impose martial law earlier this month.
published on December 29 at 7:00 a.m., Allan Doisneau, 6Medias
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