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Pol Allingham

Lammy offers condolences after plane crash in South Korea kills 179 people

Firefighters and rescue team members work near the wreckage of the passenger plane at Muan International Airport (Ahn Young-joon/AP/PA) - (AP)

Foreign Secretary David Lammy has paid his “heartfelt condolences” to the people of South Korea and Thailand after a plane crash killed 179.

The Jeju Air passenger plane was carrying 181 people when it skidded off a runway at Muan International Airport in South Korea, slammed into a concrete fence and burst into flames after its front landing gear apparently failed to deploy, officials said.

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