Emergency services continue working into the night at South Korean airport following plane accident

(29 Dec 2024)
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Muan, South Korea - 29 December 2024
1. Various of emergency workers removing bodies
2. Wide of crash site
3. Close of plane
4. Various wide of crash site ++NIGHT SHOTS++
5. Mid of crash site ++NIGHT SHOTS++
6. Wide of emergency workers ++NIGHT SHOTS++
STORYLINE:
A passenger plane burst into flames Sunday after it skidded off a runway at a South Korean airport, killing most of the 181 people on board, in one of the country’s worst aviation disasters.

The National Fire Agency said rescuers raced to pull people from the Jeju Air passenger plane at the airport in the town of Muan, about 290 kilometers (180 miles) south of Seoul. The Transport Ministry said the plane was a 15-year-old Boeing 737-800 jet that was returning from Bangkok and that the crash happened at 9:03 a.m.

At least 174 people — 83 women, 80 men and 11 others whose genders were not immediately identifiable — died in the fire, the fire agency said. Emergency workers pulled two people, both crew members, to safety. Health officials said they are conscious and not in life-threatening condition.

The death toll is expected to rise further as the rest of the people aboard the plane remain missing about nine hours after the incident.

The fire agency deployed 32 fire trucks and several helicopters to contain the fire. About 1,560 firefighters, police officers, soldiers and other officials were also sent to the site, it said.

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