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Acting President Choi Sang-mok arrived at the scene of the accident at Muan Airport in Jeollanam-do and began conducting on-site investigation.

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport closed Muan Airport and set up a regional accident management headquarters at the site to respond. Reporter Kim Ki-bong!

Please tell me the details.

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Acting President Choi Sang-mok has been directing at the accident site at Muan Airport since around 1 p.m., and once declared Muan-gun, where the accident occurred, a special disaster area.

Acting President Choi presided over the 2nd Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Meeting at Muan County Office,

I pray for the rest of the victims of this accident and express my sincere condolences to the bereaved families.

He also said he would do his best to help the injured recover quickly.

In addition, he said he is preparing to declare a special disaster zone at the accident site, and will thoroughly investigate the cause of the accident and come up with measures to prevent recurrence.

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport has closed Muan Airport and is conducting a probationary operation with the surrounding area under control.

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport held its third briefing since the accident at 3 p.m. just now to reveal what has been revealed and the situation so far,
Two crew members at the tail of the plane survived out of 181 people on board
but the death toll continues to rise with no additional survivors found.

During the first attempt at landing, the control tower alerted the bird collision group, and shortly afterwards, the captain declared a "Mayday" announcing the emergency.

The control tower then informed him to land in the opposite direction of the runway, and the captain accepted it and said he couldn't stop in the process of landing and crashed to the wall.

The current flight recorders have been secured by the accident investigation committee, and the voice recorders are planned to be secured additionally depending on the situation at the site.

Separately, a local accident management headquarters, headed by the head of the Busan Regional Aviation Administration, was set up at the accident site to deal with the accident.

About 5,560 people, including six investigators from the accident investigation committee, the airport corporation, police, firefighting, and local government personnel, were deployed to the site, it said.

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport plans to continue the briefing as soon as further circumstances are confirmed.

So far, I'm Kim Ki-bong of YTN in the Ministry of Economy.