“Local officials say the plane overran the runway, collided with a fence and sustained significant damage”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
The plane crash happened at 9:07 a.m. local time. The plane, carrying 175 passengers and six crew members from Bangkok, crashed on landing at Mueang Airport, located in South Jeolla Province, 288 kilometers from Seoul.
Local officials say the plane overran the runway, collided with a fence and sustained significant damage. Rescue operations are ongoing at the scene, and investigators are establishing the causes of the disaster.
The Azerbaijan Airlines plane, which was on its way from Baku to Grozny, crashed near Aktau, Kazakhstan, in the morning of December 25. 38 people died.
According to Euronews and Reuters, the cause of the plane crash was the Russian anti-aircraft system. Reuters reported that the missile was fired at the plane during “drone aerial activity” over Grozny. The rocket exploded next to the plane, damaging its skin.
On December 27, the head of Rosaviatsia, Dmytro Yadrov, confirmed that drones attacked the city of Grozny when the plane was about to land at Grozny airport. He claimed that the pilot of the plane was offered other airports in Russia for landing, but he decided to go to Aktau airport. Euronews sources in the Azerbaijani government wrote that the crew of the damaged airliner asked for an emergency landing, but it was not allowed to land at any of the Russian airports.