Airline Jeju Air apologises for crashpublished at 04:09 Greenwich Mean Time
The airline Jeju Air has just issued an apology.
“We at Jeju Air lower our head in apology to everyone who were harmed in this incident at the Muan Airport,” says the statement, which has been translated into English.
“We will do all we can to respond to the incident. We are sorry for the distress.”
The cause of the crash is still not known, but local media reported it may have been caused by birds getting caught in the plane’s system.
This crash is the first fatal accident in the history of Jeju Air, one of South Korea’s largest low-cost airlines, which was set up in 2005.