BREAKING: Jeju Air Plane Crash Leaves Over 149 People Dead In Korea [Video]

It is a black Sunday in South Korea as the Jeju Air Plane Crash news hits the internet which has left over 149 people dead.

BrandNewsDay Nigeria reports that the death toll from a plane crash at Muan International Airport in South Korea has risen to 149, according to the fire service.

Among the total, 71 are male and 69 are female, while the gender of nine deceased has not been confirmed, as the bodies of the victims were so badly damaged, according to the authority.

The country’s land ministry said in a briefing that the investigation into what caused the South Korean plane crash may take up to three years.

It said that commercial flight investigations can take six months and three years.

The land ministry said that considering the plane was manufactured outside of South Korea, investigators will need to consult the manufacturers of major parts of the plane, which might mean the investigation takes a long time.

Newsone understands that a Jeju Air aircraft with 181 people on board crash-landed. When the plane crashed, it collided with a wall at Muan International Airport in Muan County and exploded.

“Jeju Air will spare no effort to respond to the accident,” Jeju Air said in a statement.

“We are currently working to determine the exact cause and details of the situation,” an official of Jeju Air said. “The aircraft has been in operation for 15 years with no history of accidents.”

There will be questions asked about the response of the ground team at Muan International Airport in South Korea, where a Jeju Air flight crashed on Sunday killing at least 176 people, an aviation journalist told CNN.

“There are a lot of questions here about the response to this incident from the ground perspective,” said Geoffrey Thomas, editor of Airline News.

In a situation like this one, more preparations could have been put in place by ground operatives before the plane reached the runway, Thomas suggested.

“With an emergency like this, why (weren’t) the fire tenders [tankers] out there beside the runway? Why hadn’t they put foam on the runway?” he asked.

There are also questions about the situation on board the plane, Thomas said, including why the aircraft’s undercarriage was not lifted when it tried to land.

This could have happened because of hydraulic issues, though a bird strike, one of the speculated reasons behind why the plane crashed, “would not have probably caused that issue,” he said.