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Kang Jin-kyu with Hieun Shin in Seoul

Flags Fly At Half-mast As S. Korea Probes Its Worst Plane Crash

Flags fly at half mast across South Korea as the country investigates the worst plane crash in its history (Credit: AFP)

Flags flew at half-mast on Monday as South Korea mourned 179 people killed in the worst plane crash on its soil, as investigators probe why the Jeju Air plane crash-landed and burst into flames.

The country has started seven days of national mourning, with the acting president flying to the crash site in southwestern Muan for a memorial as teams of US and South Korean investigators raced to establish what caused Sunday's disaster.

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