Last moments before South Korean plane hits concrete barrier and explodes captured on video

At this moment a Jeju Air flights A plane was caught on camera skidding off a runway before hitting a concrete barrier and bursting into flames at an airport in South Korea.

Sunday’s crash killed 179 people on board. Only two people survived, a man and a woman, both crew members.

Footage shown on South Korean television channels showed the plane skidding and its landing gear apparently not deployed. The jet overran the runway and hit a barrier, causing a violent explosion. The video showed thick smoke billowing from the plane and the plane being engulfed in flames.

The aircraft involved was a 15-year-old Boeing 737-800 passenger aircraft. At 9:03 a.m. local time, the plane flew from Bangkok to near the town of Muan, about 180 miles south of Seoul.

South Korean plane overruns airport runway and crashes, killing 179: report

Kyle Bailey, a former FAA safety panel representative, told Fox News that in his opinion the plane was traveling too fast, skidded on the runway and then struck a structure that he believed contained instrument landing equipment.

“I think it was almost a disaster for that plane,” he said.

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Rescue teams carry the body of a passenger at the scene of a plane fire at Muan International Airport in South Korea on Sunday, December 29, 2024. (AP Photo/An Jun)

Crews have retrieved flight data from the plane’s black box and cockpit voice recorder. Joo Jong-wan, a senior official at the Ministry of Transport, said government experts would examine the cause of the accident and fire.

While it may take months to determine the cause of the crash, Muan Fire Chief Lee Jung-hyun said crews were investigating various possibilities, including whether the plane was struck by birds.

Firefighters and rescue team members work at Muan International Airport in Muan, South Korea, Sunday, December 29, 2024. (Photo source of Zhao Nanzhu/Yonhap News Agency: Associated Press)

Transportation Department officials said the airport control tower issued a bird strike warning to the plane shortly before it was intended to land and allowed the pilot to land elsewhere.

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The plane was destroyed and the tail assembly was the only identifiable part of the wreckage, the fire chief said in a televised briefing.

Fox News’ Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Chris Pandorf and The Associated Press contributed to this report.