LIVE: South Korea plane crash: investigators search rubble

Before Sunday, South Korea had not seen a fatal air accident in more than two decades.

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That changed shortly after 9am, when Jeju Air flight 7C2216 from Bangkok came in to land at Muan International Airport, which serves the cities of the country’s far southwest.

The pilot had issued a mayday signal after an apparent bird strike, and after one aborted landing came in for a second attempt with no landing gear lowered.

The plane sped the length of the runway before striking the wall that guarded the airport’s electronic landing systems. Two members of the cabin crew were rescued alive, but all 175 passengers, both pilots and the two other crew members were killed in the blaze that swept through the wreckage.

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