South Korean investigators said Saturday they were close to finalising the transcript of the cockpit voice recorder from a fatal plane crash that left 179 people dead last week.

Families of the victims were taken to the crash site for the first time on New Year's Day to pay their respects.

South Korean officials are struggling to determine what caused a deadly plane crash that killed nearly 180 people on board, with the nation saddened, shocked and ashamed over the country’s worst aviation disaster in decades.

A plane carrying 181 people crashed while landing, killing most on board. Officials were investigating a possible malfunction with the landing gear and a bird strike.

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After two leaders were impeached in as many weeks, a deadly plane crash has prompted South Korea’s feuding political camps to temporarily halt a protracted power struggle.

A 33-year-old flight attendant, one of just two survivors of the Jeju Air plane crash in South Korea that killed 179 people, is awake and talking to medical staff, according to a hospital official. The survivor,

President Joe Biden said on Sunday that he was “deeply saddened” by the commercial plane crash in South Korea that killed 179 people.

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.

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