A Jeju Air plane carrying 175 passengers from Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, crashed on Sunday morning while landing at Muan Airport in South Korea, killing 179 people including four crew members.

Out of six crew members, two cabin crew in the last seat of the ship were rescued alive. The ship slipped on the runway with the flames and was completely damaged.

Among the two rescued alive, a 33-year-old male "flight attendant" is communicating with the doctor, while the health condition of a 25-year-old nurse who suffered head and leg injuries is stable, according to the Korean news agency Yonhap.

The accident happened at 6:30 am on Sunday morning according to Nepali time. South Korea's time is 3 hours 15 minutes ahead of Nepal. According to the Ministry of Transport there, two Thai nationals and the rest 173 Koreans were among the passengers on the plane that crashed. There are 85 women and 84 men among the dead. The gender of the remaining 10 deceased has not been identified. There were three-year-old children to 78-year-olds on the plane. Among those who lost their lives, 5 people were under 10 years of age.

The accident site is about 289 km southwest of Seoul, the capital of South Korea. Jeju Air flight number-2216 operated by American Boeing 737-800 took off for Korea at 2:30 pm Bangkok time. The flight time of this route is about 4 and a half hours. According to Muan International Airport, the plane was supposed to land at 8:54 a.m. Korea time.

According to the Ministry of Transport of Korea, the main reason for the accident is that the landing gear of the ship did not open during landing. The American news organization "CNN" quoted the fire fighters and flight analysts operating at the airport and mentioned that the accident was due to "landing gear" malfunction. While the plane was landing, the air traffic control tower of the airport informed the pilot that there was a bird on the approach path.

One minute after their warning, the crew from the plane called the 'mayday-mayday call' (a term used by a distressed aircraft) through the radio set from the cockpit, pleading for help from the 'air traffic controller', according to CNN. At the time of 'mayday call', the aircraft was only 2.2 km from the end point of the runway.

After the accident, in the public 'video footage', the ship adopted a 'belly-land' (an emergency method of landing on the runway by slipping from the bottom when the wheels are not open) on the runway. However, it is estimated that the crew could not reduce the speed of the ship during the "belly-land" and the brakes, including the flaps connected to the wings, which are used to stop the speed of the ship as soon as it touches the ground, were not operational.

According to Yonhap news agency, the plane skidded off the runway and hit the concrete structure and the Instrument Landing System (ILS) structure on the border of the airport.

Agencies have mentioned that the cause of the accident could not be revealed until late on Sunday evening. According to the officials, it will be revealed from the investigation of the flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of the ship that there was a malfunction in the ship or other reasons for the accident. All the employees, including the CEO of the company operating the aircraft, bowed their heads in a press conference on Sunday and expressed their commitment to fully assist in the investigation of the incident. They said that they would also help the bereaved family members. In the same way, the American Boeing Company, the ship manufacturer, expressed its sorrow over the incident and said that it would help in the investigation.