SEOUL, South Korea — A jetliner skidded off a runway, slammed into a concrete fence and burst into flames Sunday in South Korea after its landing gear apparently failed to deploy. All but two of the 181 people on board were killed in one of the country’s worst aviation disasters, officials said.
Families wept and wailed as officials read off the names of the victims who died on Sunday, Dec. 29 at Muan International Airport, where the crash occurred, according to CNN and NBC News. Only two people, a pair of flight attendants, are said to have survived the crash, which was flying in from Bangkok, Thailand.
Investigators from the NTSB and Boeing were expected to join the investigation into South Korea's deadliest air crash.
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U.S. investigators are helping South Korea investigate the plane crash on Sunday that killed 179 people on board a plane from Thailand. The team of U.S. investigators will include the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB),
Acting South Korean President Choi Sang-mok has told emergency responders to use "all available" resources to respond to the crash.
The Muan crash is one of the deadliest disasters in South Korea’s aviation history. The last time South Korea suffered a large-scale air disaster was in 1997, when a Korean Airline plane crashed in Guam, killing 228 people on board. In 2013, an Asiana Airlines plane crash-landed in San Francisco, killing three and injuring approximately 200.
South Korean officials are investigating the crash landing of a passenger jet that's one of the deadliest disasters in that nation's aviation history
Officials are investigating the cause of the deadliest aircraft crash in South Korean history, which killed 179 people.
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