SEOUL (Reuters) – At the very least 28 folks have been killed when an airliner went off the runway and slammed right into a wall at South Korea’s Muan Worldwide Airport on Sunday, Yonhap information company reported.
The accident occurred as Jeju Air flight 7C2216, carrying 175 passengers and 6 crew on a flight from the Thai capital Bangkok, was touchdown on the airport within the south of the nation, the report mentioned.
Two folks have been discovered alive and rescue operations have been nonetheless underneath approach, a Muan fireplace official mentioned. The official couldn’t verify the reviews of 28 lifeless.
Authorities have been working to rescue folks within the tail part, an airport official advised Reuters.
Video shared by native media confirmed the twin-engine plane skidding down the runway with no obvious touchdown gear earlier than slamming right into a wall in an explosion of flame and particles. Different photographs confirmed smoke and fireplace engulfing elements of the airplane.
Aviation monitoring website FlightRadar24 mentioned the plane seemed to be a Boeing (NYSE:) 737-800. Boeing didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration didn’t instantly reply to an e mail searching for remark.
South Korean performing President Choi Sang-mok, who was named interim chief of the nation on Friday after the earlier performing president was impeached amid an ongoing political disaster, ordered all-out rescue efforts, his workplace mentioned.
His chief of workers convened an emergency assembly.
A Jeju Air spokesperson mentioned the airline was checking the reviews.
