Urgent: Dozens of people were killed in the explosion of a plane carrying 181 people in South Korea

A passenger plane veered off the runway at an airport in South Korea and caught fire, killing at least 96 people.

 

 

The Associated Press said that a Jeju Airlines plane ran off the runway in South Korea and crashed into a fence, killing at least 96 passengers.

Yonhap News Agency attributed the devastating accident to a defect in the landing gear.

Jeju Air, a low-cost airline in South Korea, was carrying 175 Passengers and six crew members were on board the Boeing 737-800 when the accident occurred Sunday morning local time at Muan International Airport in Muan District, South Jeolla Province, about 180 miles south of Seoul.