Anchor: A passenger jet carrying 181 people crashed on Sunday morning while landing at Muan International Airport in South Korea’s southwestern region. Authorities said most of those on the ill-fated flight from Bangkok are presumed dead, although two people were rescued from the tail section of the plane. 
Kim Bum-soo has more. 

Report: A Jeju Air plane carrying 175 passengers and six crew members crash-landed at Muan International Airport in South Korea on Sunday morning and collided with a concrete wall after veering off the runway.

The impact caused the aircraft to burst into flames. 

Most of the 181 people aboard flight 7C 2216 are presumed dead and only two were rescued from the separated tail section of the plane, according to rescue authorities. 

The victims were thrown out of the broken fuselage, and rescue authorities said their chances of survival were very slim.

Fire authorities confirmed 174 deaths from the accident as of 5:26 p.m.

The officials said the fuselage was mostly destroyed and it is difficult to identify the dead, adding that the crash appears to have been caused by birds getting caught in the plane’s engine.

In video footage that KBS obtained, the plane’s landing gear appears to have failed to deploy as it approached the runway just before the crash-landing. 

However, the exact cause of the accident has not yet been determined. 

Jeju Air flight 7C 2216 departed from Bangkok carrying 173 South Korean passengers, two Thai passengers and six crew members.
Kim Bum-soo, KBS World Radio News.