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Fire service officials said the accident was caused by a landing gear malfunction. At least 47 people are confirmed dead after a South Korean airliner crash-landed at the Muan airport in South Korea on Sunday, according to the South Jeolla Fire Service Headquarters. The video footage, broadcast by networks including YTN, JTBC and MBC, showed neither the back nor front landing gear were visible as smoke poured from the back of the sliding aircraft. At least 122 people have been confirmed dead so far, according to the local fire department.

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South Korea’s acting President Choi Sang-mok has declared a week-long mourning period from Sunday to January 4, following the deadly airliner crash at Muan 7dnews.com International Airport. He first thought the noise was from an oil tanker accident, as there are many oil tankers nearby, Reuters reported. When he realized it was a plane that crashed, he thought that wild geese could have caused the disaster. Im Young Hak, who owns a seafood restaurant near the site of the crash, told Reuters he saw “a big dark smoke” and heard multiple explosions around 9 a.m. Images of the crash published by the Yonhap news agency showed only the tail section of the plane intact, surrounded by flames.

The aircraft’s landing gear appears not to have been set down when it crash-landed on the runway, based on video footage of Sunday’s disaster, according to a CNN transport analyst. The flight data recording black box has been recovered by the accident investigation committee while the voice recording device has not been recovered yet, officials from the ministry said in a briefing. ⁠Both black boxes from the South Korean airliner that crashed at the Muan International Airport on Sunday have been recovered, including flight data and voice record, according to a briefing from the Land Ministry.

The two survivors — both crew members, one male and one female — were rescued from the plane’s tail section, the only part of the aircraft that retained some of its shape, emergency services said. Just two of the 181 people on board a South Korean airliner survived when the passenger jet crash-landed at an airport in the country’s southwest Sunday morning local time. At least 28 people have died in a plane crash in southwestern South Korea, a local fire department official has told CNN. The South Korean airliner that crashed at the Muan International Airport on Sunday made a mayday call shortly after the control tower warned about birds in the area, according to a briefing from the Land Ministry.

The death toll of the plane crash in Muan, South Korea, has risen again, to 176, according to the fire service. There are also questions around the situation on board the plane, Thomas said, including why the aircraft’s undercarriage was not lifted when it tried to land. The death toll of the plane crash in Muan, South Korea, has risen again, to 177, according to the fire service. Experts have urged local officials, who are facing demands for answers from loved ones of those killed in the aviation disaster, not to speculate on its cause until more information is available. A man who witnessed Sunday’s plane crash in Muan, South Korea, said he is “devastated” by the disaster, describing the scene of the accident to Reuters. Thick smoke billowed from the burning wreckage after a Jeju Air jetliner crash-landed on the runway of Muan International Airport, multiple footage clips published by public broadcaster Yonhap news agency showed.