It was the worst plane catastrophe to occur on South Korean land and the worst to involve a South Korean airline in over thirty years.
“Only the tail part retains a little bit of shape, and the rest of (the plane) looks almost impossible to recognise,” Lee Jung-hyun, the fire chief for Muan, said during a briefing.
According to Lee, the two crew members—a man and a woman—were pulled from the blazing plane’s tail area.
According to the director of the local public health centre, they were receiving treatment in hospitals for medium-to-severe injuries.
According to Lee, investigators are looking at weather and bird strikes as potential contributing reasons.
According to airport officials quoted by Yonhap news agency, the landing gear problem could have been triggered by a bird attack.
