Hours after a Jeju Air plane crash-landed and burst into flames, killing 179 people on board in the worst aviation disaster on South Korean soil, a photo of an aircraft's burnt out fuselage was shared in social media posts that falsely claimed it showed the wreckage.

Investigators are in South Korea searching through plane crash debris to try to determine what caused the country's deadliest air disaster in decades, which killed 179.

Experts were still reviewing how to extract the data from the second black box, the flight data recorder. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Maps and diagrams break down the final minutes of Jeju Air flight 2216 that ended in the deadliest air crash in South Korea.

A South Korean Jeju Air passenger jet crashed on landing at Muan International Airport on Sunday, killing 179 people in the country's deadliest air disaster.

The investigation of South Korea's tragic jet crash intensifies as families mourn the 179 victims. Authorities are analyzing cockpit voice data, with damaged flight data sent to the US. The tragedy prompted a national mourning period,

South Korean investigators probing a Jeju Air crash which killed 179 people in the worst aviation disaster on its soil said Wednesday they will send one of the retrieved black boxes to the United States for analysis.

South Korea's Muan county was shaken when a Jeju Air flight carrying 175 passengers and six crew members crashed at its airport last Sunday (Dec 29), leaving only two survivors. Many are mourning the victims - and wondering how their hometown can move on from the disaster.

Investigators have finished extracting data from one of the black boxes from the fated Jeju Air plane that crashed on Sunday, South Korea's transport ministry has said.

South Korean investigators have managed to extract data from the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of the Jeju Air plane that crashed on Sunday. The Boeing 737-800, which was returning from Thailand, crash-landed at Muan International Airport after suspected landing gear failure.

A flight operated by Jeju Air crashed at 9:03 a.m. local time on Sunday while the plane was attempting to land at Muan International Airport near the southern tip of South Korea.