At Least 124 People Are Dead After A Passenger Jet Crashed Upon Landing At An Airport In South Korea On Sunday Morning.
Jeju Air Flight 2216 was landing at Muan International Airport around 9 a.m. local time when the plane went off the runway and crashed into a wall.
The updated death toll was provided by the National Fire Agency. The official death toll has steadily climbed in the hours after the crash.
There were a total of 175 passengers and six crew members aboard the Boeing 737 aircraft, which had taken off from Bangkok, according to the Korean Ministry of Land Infrastructure and Transport.
Video from the scene at the time of the crash appears to show the landing gear was up when the plane touched down, indicating some sort of malfunction, and it also appears the plane landed at a high speed.
The transport ministry was on the scene investigating the cause of the crash.
By Sunday afternoon, South Korean officials said they had confirmed that at least 124 people were dead, according to the National Fire Agency. Fifty-four of the dead were men and 57 were women, the agency said, adding that the remains of 13 were still unidentified.
A man and a woman were rescued from the wreckage and were taken to the hospital, according to the transport ministry. Both were crew members, the fire agency said. Their conditions were not released.
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