is refusing to step down. the health ministry in gaza say medical staff have been detained and interrogated after israeli forces forcibly evacuated the last major hospital in northern gaza. the travel disruption caused by fog in the uk is expected to continue today. there have been delays and cancellations at several airports since friday. hello and welcome. i'm catherine byaruhanga. we start with breaking news from south korea. a plane has crashed on landing at an airport in the country, and at least 85 people have been killed. the boeing 737 belonging tojeju airlines had 181 people on board, and officials say they expect most are dead. they say some passengers fell out of the fuselage during the crash.

two survivors have been found. the plane was on a holiday route from bangkok when it skidded down the runway at muan airport before hitting a wall and bursting into flames. the authorities say a birdstrike may have caused the landing gear to malfunction. the airline has issued a formal apology. let's speak to our south east asia correspondent jonathan head who's in bangkok. jonathan, what is the latest that we are jonathan, what is the latest that we are hearing jonathan, what is the latest that we are hearing from officials about this crash? well, as far as the actual number of casualties are concerned, the messaging they are giving is that they do not believe there are likely to be many, if any more survivors than the two or three who have been found. this is a serious crash. there

is a video that has been widely published of the plane and it is clear it is skidding along the runway with no undercarriage deployed at very high speed, shoots off the end of the runway. there is a smoke coming off the engine which is creeping across the ground, and hits a mount or a wall very hard and immediately burst into a big wall of fire. emergency services were there very quickly. this was a very, very destructive crash. apart from that, this reference to a bird strike is a bit baffling. there has been a piece of video posted that looks like this aircraft, perhaps, it is very grainy, and you can see flame coming out of the back of an engine that may suggest a bird strike, but no aviation experts say a bird strike can cause an undercarriage earlier. an undercarriage earlier. an undercarriage is extremely powerful and has to carry the full weight of the plane. the

question is why the crew were unable to deploy the undercarriage. there are backup systems and even with a belly landing which is what they were trying to attempt, why the plane was going at such speed when it reached the end of the runway. these are things for investigators to look at, and given the plane crashed close to the airport, it is likely the authorities will have captured the data recorder and voice recorderfrom captured the data recorder and voice recorder from the captured the data recorder and voice recorderfrom the plane so they should have reasonably good information about what went wrong in the last moments of this flight.— of this flight. jonathan, tell us about — of this flight. jonathan, tell us about the _ of this flight. jonathan, tell us about the people - of this flight. jonathan, tell us about the people who i of this flight. jonathan, tell - us about the people who might have been on board this flight. it took off from bangkok, going to a regional part of south korea, muan in the southwest. it mentions this was a budget airline so these are likely people on holiday?- airline so these are likely people on holiday? that would be the best — people on holiday? that would be the best guest. _ people on holiday? that would be the best guest. -- - people on holiday? that would be the best guest. -- best - be the best guest. —— best guess. we have had confirmation

of two thai nationals on the plane. this city in the south of korea, muan, is not a place they would go to. the capital places are either the capital soul orjeju island. we believe it may have been korean holidaymakers who were leaving thailand for a holiday and we are yet to have all of the nationalities confirmed. there were 175 passengers on board. and just to bring some breaking news to our audiences, bowling has offered condolences and says it is in touch with south korea's jeju says it is in touch with south korea'sjeju air after says it is in touch with south korea's jeju air after the deadly crash of an airliner. it has been confirmed the plane was a boeing 787. how rare our crashes like this in south korea, particularly forjeju airlines? korea, particularly forje'u airhead airlines? je'u airlines has never airlines? je'u airlines has had — airlines? 1er airlines has

never had a _ airlines? jeju airlines has never had a fatal- airlines? 1er airlines has never had a fatal crash i airlines? 1er airlines has - never had a fatal crash before. it has only been in operation in 20 years. it did have a minor issue in 2007 with no injuries. in terms of fatalities, it has been unblemished until now. it is one of a number of low—cost carriers that have established themselves in a relatively recently. the budget flight revolution took off late in a but it is taking advantage of an enormous market. 3 billion people, almost half of the world's population, live in a and there is demand increasingly for people with higher incomes for travel in the region so there are low—cost carriers and there are safety concerns related to those. pilots are often quite young and inexperienced. there is a huge demand for them — not a lot of trained pilots around. but no suggestion at this stage that had anything to do with this accident, and jeju airlines has been a very fast expanding airline. it serves nearly 60 destinations in asia and looks like one of the more

successful of the travel industry operating in this region. industry operating in this reuion. ~ , ., ., industry operating in this reuion. ~ , . ., ., region. we understand that at least two passengers - region. we understand that at least two passengers on - region. we understand that at| least two passengers on board work thai nationals. have you heard anything from thai authorities?— heard anything from thai authorities? , , authorities? very little. they have been — authorities? very little. they have been informed - authorities? very little. they have been informed there i authorities? very little. they i have been informed there were two nationalities on board from the airline. we don't know whether they survived or not. given the small number of survivors, it would be a miracle if they did. as for the plane, which you mentioned earlier, because there is talk about boeing 737 because of the crisis involving the latest model, the boeing 7117 max. this plane is a workhorse of the airline industry. it has no particular safety issues. thousands and thousands of flights every week with this plane without incident. this plane without incident. this plane we understand was first operated by the low—cost carrier ryanair in europe

before being fought by itjeju air several years ago. this before being fought by it je'u air several years ago.i air several years ago. this is a difficult — air several years ago. this is a difficult time _ air several years ago. this is a difficult time for _ air several years ago. this is a difficult time for south i a difficult time for south korea as it goes through a political crisis at the moment. how is this likely to affect people in the country and the national psyche at the moment? it is pretty grim news and it really is to come on top of a really is to come on top of a really turbulent year. we had president yoon declare martial law, that was a huge shock this year, and then his acting president has been impeached. politics is extremely rowdy in south korea. this is something different. this has been a terrible tragedy for which there is no clear explanation at the moment, but in a country which has a very painful history of disasters which were perceived to be avoidable in recent years. there was the itiawan halloween crash where it was found the authorities could have done more to prevent

people dying after they came out for their first post covid celebration and a ferry disaster in 2014. i covered both of these stories where more than 200 teenage schoolchildren died, all from one school, when a ferry capsized and there was a huge national reckoning and debate about safety in korea. after both of those disasters, i don't know if that will be the case here because we do not know what the factors were that led to this plane crash. find led to this plane crash. and as authorities _ led to this plane crash. and as authorities try _ led to this plane crash. and as authorities try to _ led to this plane crash. and as authorities try to figure - led to this plane crash. and as authorities try to figure that i authorities try to figure that out, jonathan, there is breaking news again, this time from thejeju air ceo saying that supporting the bereaved is a top priority for now. but surely it is important to remember how horrific this crash was. if you can talk us through some of those pictures we saw a little earlier.- we saw a little earlier. well,

they pretty _ we saw a little earlier. well, they pretty difficult - we saw a little earlier. well, they pretty difficult to i we saw a little earlier. well, they pretty difficult to look l they pretty difficult to look at because we see the final moments of the plane. it is easy to see the plane was out of control and unable to stop before the end of the runway. the amount of fire on board would have made it hard for people to survive. as you said earlier, a number of passengers projected from the force of the collision from the fuselage. we don't know more than that. they are very grim pictures. they will be questions asked, reasonable questions, about whether this could have been handled differently but it impossible to make judgements. it is a new airport. the runway is not that long — it is 2700 metres long and the main gateway to korea, incheon airport, serving the capital, does have longer runways. some may ask why didn't the plane make the relatively short diversion there where it would have had more space to be able to handle that belly landing? but we just don't know what

level of control the pilots had. we have not had any publication of the communication between the pilots and air traffic control, what was going wrong on that plane in the last moment before that belly landing took place. so, without that information, it is impossible to know about the decisions made by the pilots. the decisions made by the ilots. , , the decisions made by the ilots., , ., ., ., the decisions made by the ilots. , ., ., ., ., pilots. just to add to that, when we _ pilots. just to add to that, when we look _ pilots. just to add to that, when we look at _ pilots. just to add to that, when we look at the i pilots. just to add to that, i when we look at the shocking images of that crash, a fire department official has now said that the jeju department official has now said that thejeju air almost completely was destroyed in that crash landing, which is what you would expect. just talk us through the rescue effort, the operation on the ground now by the authorities. well, it was a quick operation because they were alerted, clearly, that the plane had a problem. i don't think anyone is going to fall to the airport emergency services or getting on the scene fast. they were able to get fire engines onto the blaze very quickly, but that plane exploded literally —

we have seen many air crashes where planes make an emergency landing and sometimes quite often a fire does break out but often a fire does break out but often it breaks out after a while so passenger has time, or the crew have time, to get an emergency evacuation going and get people out of the plane quickly. we have seen some remarkable accidents, one in japan recently, where the plane burnt out completely but the fire started after the 1523 00:11:27,666 --