When South Korea's acting President Choi Sang-mok arrived at the scene of the deadliest air disaster on the country's soil on Sunday, he had been on the job for less than 48 hours.

Acting South Korean President Choi Sang-mok has told emergency responders to use "all available" resources to respond to the crash.

Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok became on Friday South Korea's second acting president in two weeks, as lawmakers voted to impeach the current acting leader, Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, fuelling political uncertainty in Asia's fourth-largest economy.

The crash of Jeju Air flight 7C2216 on Sunday marks the deadliest ever on South Korean soil and the worst involving a South Korean airline since a 1997 Korean Air Lines crash in Guam that killed more than 200.

This is the situation the University of Miami found themselves in when starting quarterback… Scores of people were killed on Sunday when a passenger jet crash-landed at an airport in southwestern South Korea,

With at least 85 people killed, the crash marked the worst aviation accident involving a South Korean airline since a Korean Air jet slammed into a hill in Guam, a U.S. territory in the western Pacific, in 1997. That crash killed 229 of the 254 people on board.

South Korea. A Boeing 737-800 flight, operated by airline Jeju Air, had been carrying 181 passengers on board. It had been landing at Muan Airport from Bangkok, Thailand, before footage shared online appears to show it coming off the runway and crashing into a wall,

SEOUL (Reuters) -At least 62 people were killed when an airliner veered off the runway and erupted into a fireball as it slammed into a wall at South Korea's Muan International Airport on Sunday, the national fire agency said.