At least 85 people were killed when an airliner veered off the runway and erupted into a fireball as it slammed into a wall at South Korea's Muan International Airport, the national fire agency said.
Two people were rescued, the agency said, and an official told Reuters they were crew members.
The crash occurred as Jeju Air flight 7C2216, carrying 175 passengers and six crew on a flight from the Thai capital Bangkok, was landing shortly after 9am (12am Irish time) at the airport in the south of the country, South Korea's transport ministry said.
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Rescuers are carrying out a rescue operation in the tail section of the aircraft. Efforts continue to extinguish a fire caused by the crash.
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