Two people survived and 179 were confirmed to have been killed in a plane crash at a South Korean airport Sunday. There were 181 passengers and crew on board.

The Jeju Air Flight 2216 skidded off the runway while landing at Muan International Airport in South Korea, bursting into flames after crashing, a spokesperson for the country’s National Fire Agency said.

The airport is about 180 miles south of Seoul.

The Boeing 737-800 plane took off from Bangkok, Thailand, shortly after 2 a.m. local time (2 p.m. Saturday ET), according to the flight-tracking platform FlightAware. It was carrying 175 passengers and six crew members, said Joo Jong-wan, director of the Aviation Policy Division at South Korea’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.

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