{"id":68665,"date":"2024-12-31T14:16:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T05:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/31\/south-korea-plane-crash-cause-investigation-muan-airport-embankment"},"modified":"2025-01-01T01:00:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T16:00:50","slug":"south-korea-plane-crash-investigations-intensify-as-questions-raised-over-airport-embankment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68665","title":{"rendered":"South Korea plane crash investigations focus on role of airport embankment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeju Air flight burst into flames when it hit barrier at end of runway after crash-landing at Muan international<\/p>\n<p>South Korean authorities seeking answers to the country\u2019s deadliest plane disaster are investigating the role of a hardened barrier at the end of a runway that was hit after the jet crash-landed on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The structure may only partly explain why Sunday\u2019s Jeju Air flight ended in such a violent manner. All but two of the 181 people onboard died when the plane slid down the runway at Muan international airport and burst into flames after hitting the dirt-and-concrete embankment built to house navigation equipment.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/31\/south-korea-plane-crash-cause-investigation-muan-airport-embankment\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeju Air flight burst into flames when it hit barrier at end of runway after crash-landing at Muan internationalSouth Korean authorities seeking answers to the country\u2019s deadliest plane disaster are investigating the role of a hardened barrier at the e&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,931,222,3215,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-plane-crashes","category-south-korea","category-south-korea-plane-crash","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68665"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68677,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68665\/revisions\/68677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}