Article 6T719 Jeju Air crash: all but two presumed dead in South Korea’s worst domestic civil aviation disaster

Jeju Air crash: all but two presumed dead in South Korea’s worst domestic civil aviation disaster

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Justin McCurry in Tokyo and Raphael Rashid in Seou
from World news | The Guardian on (#6T719)

Footage appears to show Boeing 737-800 skidding along runway at Muan airport before hitting wall and catching fire

All but two of 181 people onboard a plane that crashed while landing at an airport in South Korea are presumed to have died, in the country's worst domestic civil aviation disaster.

Officials said they had confirmed that 177 people died in the crash on Sunday at Muan international airport in the country's south-west, while two crew members - a man and a woman - had been rescued. Two people remained missing nine hours after the incident.

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