South Korea is currently in seven days of national mourning after all but two of the 181 people onboard a Jeju Air flight were confirmed dead.
It is one of the country’s worst air disasters in years.
Two crew members are the only survivors of Jeju Air flight 7C 2216 which crash-landed at Muan International Airport on a flight from Bangkok.
One of the survivors is conscious and has been talking.
A bird strike has been mooted as a possible factor in the crash although a landing gear malfunction was quoted as a cause by local fire officials.
CNN reported details of a text message from a passenger sent just before the crash saying there had been a bird strike.
A team of US investigators are on the way to South Korea made up of air accident agency NTSB, the FAA and Boeing.
The plane was a Boeing 737-800.
Video showed the plane sliding on its belly at high seed on the runway with neither the front or back landing gear visible.
With no means to brake, the plane slammed into an embankment.
The two black box flight data and voice recorders have been recovered.
Sunday’s Jeju Air crash is worst aviation disaster in South Korea or involving a South Korean airline since 1997.
