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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Arpan Rai,Alex Ross and Simon Calder

Distraught families want answers after 179 people die in South Korea’s deadliest domestic air disaster

Grieving families screamed and wept at a South Korean airport as the names of the dead were confirmed after a plane carrying 181 people crashed, killing all but two on board, in the worst domestic aviation disaster in the country’s history.

The Jeju Air passenger plane skidded off a runway at Muan international airport, slammed into a concrete fence and burst into flames as the Boeing 737-800 from Bangkok attempted an emergency landing on Sunday, at 9.03am local time.

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