A PASSENGER plane crashed at an airport in South Korea today, killing all but two of the 181 people on board, in what was one of the country’s worst aviation disasters.

The Jeju Air flight was landing in the town of Muan, about 180 miles south of Seoul, when it skidded off a runway and slammed into a wall when its front landing gear apparently failed to deploy. The aircraft then burst into flames.

The Transport Ministry said the jet was a 15-year-old Boeing 737-800 that was returning from Bangkok and that the crash had happened at 9.03am.