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– In this screenshot of a video filmed on a smartphone, we can see the absence of wheels which forces the plane to slide on the tarmac.
South Korea in a state of shock: Sunday December 29, while preparing to land on the tarmac of Muan airport, in the south of the country, a Boeing of the company Jeju water crashed. From the charred carcass of the device, the rescuers were able to extract two survivors out of the 181 people on board. As pointed out The Echoesit is one of the deadliest disasters in the history of aviation in South Korea after the disaster of 1997, when a plane of the Korean Airline crashed in Guam, killing 228 people.
The latest elements of the investigation reveal that the pilots attempted to land on their side after noticing that theThe landing gear did not deploy. In addition, the plane, on approach, could have been struck by one or more birds and the weather conditions were unfavorable. To carry out their investigations into the causes of this tragedy, investigators have at their disposal videos shared on social networks: spectacular images where we see the plane sliding at high speed on the runway before crashing into a concrete wall, exploding.
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Little hope of finding other survivors
The South Korean transport ministry said the plane was returning from Bangkok, where it took off at 1:30 a.m., with six crew members, 173 Korean passengers and two Thai nationals on board. Rescuers are still on site in Muan, but there remains little – if any – hope of finding new survivors inside the craft, almost completely gone up in smoke.
