Seoul, Dec 29: A passenger jet carrying 181 people belly-landed and exploded at an airport in South Korea’s southwestern county of Muan on Sunday, leaving 176 people dead and three others missing, authorities said.Two crew members survived.It marked yet another deadliest aviation disaster in the country’s history and the worst involving a local airline since the deadly 1997 Korean Air plane crash in Guam that killed 228.The accident happened at around 9 a.m. when the Jeju Aeroplane, carrying 175 passengers and six crew members, veered off the runway while landing at Muan International Airport in Muan County, South Jeolla Province, about 288 kilometres southwest of Seoul, Yonhap news agency reported.The plane skidded along the ground without its landing gear deployed, crashing into a concrete wall before bursting into flames with a deafening explosion.The authorities confirmed 176 deaths from the accident and classified the remaining three as missing persons.
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