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Recovery teams at the scene where a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 series aircraft crashed and burst into flames at Muan International Airport in Muan, some 288 kilometres southwest of Seoul on December 30, 2024. [AFP]
The emergency landing of Jeju Air Flight 2216 looked highly skilled, experts say, but all except two of the 181 people on board were killed when the Boeing 737-800 hit a wall and burst into flames.
As South Korean investigators probe the causes of the country's worst-ever aviation disaster on home soil, AFP takes a look at what could have gone wrong:
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