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The Independent UK
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At least 85 people killed as plane veers off runway and catches fire at South Korean airport

At least 85 people were killed after a passenger plane skidded off a runway, crashed into a concrete fence and caught fire at an airport in South Korea.

The National Fire Agency said the fire was almost put out but officials were still trying to pull people from the Jeju Air passenger plane carrying 181 people at the airport in the town of Muan, about 290 kilometers south of Seoul.

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