Plane with 181 on board crashes in South Korea, killing 62

Seoul: Sixty two people are confirmed dead after a Jeju Air plane carrying 181 people from Bangkok to South Korea crashed on landing, the country s fi...

Seoul: Sixty-two people are confirmed dead after a Jeju Air plane carrying 181 people from Bangkok to South Korea crashed on landing, the country's fire agency said Sunday, with dramatic video showing the aircraft bursting into flames.

"So far two rescued, 62 dead," the national fire agency said in a statement, adding that 25 of the victims were male, 37 female.

Two people -- one crew and one passenger -- were rescued from the wreckage as part of an ongoing rescue operation, the national fire agency said in a statement.

Video shared by the local MBC broadcaster showed the Jeju Air plane -- a Boeing 737-8AS according to Flight Radar -- landing at the Muan airport runway, with smoke streaming out from the engines, before the entire aircraft was quickly engulfed in flames.

Officials suspect a landing gear failure, possibly due to a bird strike, may have caused the accident. They have begun an on-site investigation to determine the exact cause, the Yonhap news agency reported.