South Korean police on Thursday, January 2, raided Jeju Air's regional aviation office, the office is in Seoul, and the crash site as a part of the ongoing investigation, reported the news agency AFP.

Footage of the crash showed the plane skidding across the airstrip at high speed, evidently with its landing gear still closed, and slamming into a wall.

Acting South Korean President Choi Sang-mok has told emergency responders to use "all available" resources to respond to the crash.

U.S. investigators are helping South Korea investigate the plane crash on Sunday that killed 179 people on board a plane from Thailand. The team of U.S. investigators will include the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB),

South Korean investigators on Friday began lifting the wreckage of the Jeju Air plane that crashed five days ago, killing 179 people in the worst aviation disaster on its soil,

Just two survivors were rescued from the wreckage of the passenger plane, which had been returning from Thailand.

Investigators from the NTSB and Boeing were expected to join the investigation into South Korea's deadliest air crash.

The Muan crash is one of the deadliest disasters in South Korea’s aviation history. The last time South Korea suffered a large-scale air disaster was in 1997, when a Korean Airline plane crashed in Guam, killing 228 people on board. In 2013, an Asiana Airlines plane crash-landed in San Francisco, killing three and injuring approximately 200.

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A flight operated by Jeju Air crashed at 9:03 a.m. local time on Sunday while the plane was attempting to land at Muan International Airport near the southern tip of South Korea.

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