After analyzing the devices, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board concluded​ that both the flight data and cockpit voice recorders stopped working about four minutes before the crash.

The plane skidded off a runway at Muan International Airport and caught fire after crashing, a fire official said.

Ultimately, the plane crashed, killing 179 people in South Korea’s worst aviation disaster. A standard pre-flight inspection found “no issues” with the Jeju Air passenger plane before it crashed.

South Korea’s acting president Choi Sang-mok has ordered an emergency safety inspection of the country’s entire airline operation system a day after 179 people were killed in the deadliest crash in the nation’s history.

King Charles has sent his condolences to the victims of the South Korean plane crash, which killed all but two of the 181 people on board on Sunday.

Investigators from the NTSB and Boeing were expected to join the investigation into South Korea's deadliest air crash.

Officials are investigating the cause of the deadliest aircraft crash in South Korean history, which killed 179 people.

Only two people were rescued and 179 people died in the plane crash on Sunday morning at the international airport in the city of Muan in southwestern South Korea. All bodies have been recovered. Source: South Korean news agency Yonhap,

The two survivors of the Jeju Air plane crash that killed 179 passengers detailed the last moments they remembered before the plane skidded down the runway and hit a structure before bursting into

Bird feathers have been found in an engine recovered from the site of the deadly Jeju Air flight which crashed-landedand killed 179 people in South Korea, investigators said. The Boeing 737 -800 skidded off a runway at Muan International Airport and hit a concrete fence, bursting into flames, on 29 December.

A former transport ministry accident investigator said the discovery suggests all power, including backup, may have been cut, which is rare.