Relatives of passengers that were on the plane react at Muan International Airport in South Korea on December 29. Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters
Just two of the 181 people on board a South Korean airliner survived when the passenger jet crash-landed at an airport in the country’s southwest Sunday morning local time.
The aircraft skidded down a runway at Muan International Airport on its belly before bursting into flames. The two survivors — both crew members, one male and one female — were rescued from the plane’s tail section, the only part of the aircraft that retained some of its shape, emergency services said. The ages of those on board ranged from 3 to 78.
It is the deadliest aviation disaster to hit South Korea since 1997, when a Korean Airlines Boeing 747 crashed in the Guam jungle, leaving 228 people dead.
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