South Korea Plane Crash: A plane crashed in South Korea. Yonhap news agency reported that 179 people died when a plane caught fire after skidding off the runway while landing at an airport in South Korea. Giving information, local officials said that the Jeju Air plane was landing at Muan International Airport when it slipped off the runway.
The crashed plane was reportedly a Boeing 737-800 of Jeju Air. The Jeju Air plane, carrying 175 passengers and six flight attendants, was returning from Thailand when it crashed during landing, reports said.
Accident happened during landing
According to the report of South Korean news agency Yonhap, the landing gear of the plane may have been affected due to the bird collision. Due to this the landing gear burst, causing a fire. According to Yonhap report, the pilot decided to land the plane directly after the landing gear failed. During the emergency landing, the speed of the plane could not be reduced and the plane reached the end of the runway. According to officials, it hit the fence at the end of the airport and the plane caught fire. According to the information, out of 175 passengers, 173 are Korean citizens. There are 2 Thai citizens.
An accident also happened in Kazakhstan
Earlier, on Wednesday, an Embraer passenger jet crashed near Aktau city of Kazakhstan, killing 38 people. The plane originated from an area of ​​Russia that Moscow had recently protected from Ukrainian drone attacks. Azerbaijan Airlines Flight J2-8243 flew hundreds of miles off its scheduled route from Azerbaijan to Russia and crashed on the opposite coast of the Caspian Sea.
At the same time, President Vladimir Putin on Saturday apologized to Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev for the plane crash that occurred in Russian airspace. He expressed his condolences to the families of the victims of the plane crash. The Russian news agency said in a statement on Saturday that Vladimir Putin expressed regret that the tragic incident took place in Russian airspace and once again Then expressed his deep and sincere condolences to the families of the victims of the plane crash and wished for the speedy recovery of the injured.