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Police raid Muan airport following fatal crash

TOPSHOT - This picture shows the control tower and the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 aircraft which crashed and burst into flames at Muan International Airport in Muan, some 288 kilometres southwest of Seoul on January 2, 2025. South Korean police said they raided Muan airport and the Jeju Air office on January 2 over the crash involving one of the carrier's Boeing 737-800s that killed 179 people. -  - South Korea OUT / NO ARCHIVES -  RESTRICTED TO SUBSCRIPTION USE
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TOPSHOT - This picture shows the control tower and the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 aircraft which crashed and burst into flames at Muan International Airport in Muan, some 288 kilometres southwest of Seoul on January 2, 2025. South Korean police said they raided Muan airport and the Jeju Air office on January 2 over the crash involving one of the carrier's Boeing 737-800s that killed 179 people. - - South Korea OUT / NO ARCHIVES - RESTRICTED TO SUBSCRIPTION USE (Photo by YONHAP / AFP) / NO ARCHIVES - RESTRICTED TO SUBSCRIPTION USE
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Police in South Korea have raided the airport of Muan following a deadly plane crash on site that killed almost all passengers aboard the aircraft last weekend, the Yonhap news agency reported. The office of low-cost airline Jeju Air, which operated the crashed Boeing 737-800, was also searched as part of a warrant based on accusations of negligence resulting in death. Police have also barred Jeju Air boss Kim E Bae from leaving the country, as they consider him to be a key witness in the case. A total of 179 people were killed when the Boeing 737-800 skidded along the runway at Muan airport in south-west South Korea without its landing gear deployed, eventually crashing into a concrete wall and going up in flames. — dpa


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