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korea has died. >> 181 people were traveling from bangkok on a jeju air flight. so far, rescue workers have confirmed the deaths of 96 people. two crew members have been rescued, but they say that the remaining passengers and crew are presumed dead. the boeing 737 800 jet crash landed at muan international airport. firefighters believe the accident was caused by a landing gear malfunction. now, this video shows the plane dragging along the runway with no landing gear in sight. moments later, the plane burst into flames. south korean officials say hundreds of emergency personnel are at the crash site to help identify the remaining victims and to record the exact locations where people have died. cnn correspondent mike valerio is following this breaking news from seoul. mike, just tragic news at a time when so many families are celebrating the holidays. what is the latest? >> so, kim, i think an interesting detail that's just come into our bureau here in

seoul. we heard from the ceo of the airline, jeju air, and he told reporters a short time ago that this aircraft had no history of accidents or anything that would suggest that some disaster, some catastrophe like this would happen. now, of course, the most arresting piece of video that we have is what we all have just witnessed. the aircraft, the boeing 737 800, approaching the runway with seemingly no landing gear deployed from its belly and then careening into an embankment and then crashing into that embankment. we do not show you the fireball in that moment, because it is the end of life for perhaps 179 people on board. we want to be respectful of the families and everything that they have been through. speaking of the families, so many of them are congregated at this airport, which is about 3.5 hours south of seoul, where we're coming to you, coming to you from right now, kim. and we have reports

from the journalists who are gathered there that there are people who are just absolutely inconsolable and who are wailing and who just, you know, cannot wait a single moment for first responders to identify their loved ones. on last count, there have only been five people who have been identified publicly in the briefing room where families are converging, converging at this airport. so in terms of how we got here, this is a jeju air boeing 737 800. we should point out, not a max aircraft. it's a slightly older version of the 737. it takes off from bangkok just after 2 a.m. local time and is due in here in south korea. and the 9:00 hour. so everything appears to be fine based on the open source intelligence that we've been able to see up until the very final moments of its approach. now we're working here at cnn to bring in video that shows, or i should say, appears to

show perhaps some sort of explosion near one of the engines. we don't have that video yet. we just want to do everything we can to be sure it's authentic. but it is playing nonstop. i should tell you, on tvs here in south korea showing perhaps an explosion near one of the engines and one of the lead first responders has brought in the possibility of bird strike kim into the equation, saying half the quote right here, the cause of the accident is estimated to be. >> before you get to that quote, mike, i just want to break in because we do have some some breaking news. unfortunately, an update on the number of dead and we just got that number 122 people confirmed dead at this moment. so unfortunately, and we expect that these these updates to continue throughout the throughout the day here. but go ahead, mike, you were you were talking about about the possibilities of what may have caused this. take us through that sure.

>> and the fear is that that death toll kim, that there are no more miracles on the horizon. and now it stands at 120. you know, thank you certainly for bringing that in. and the fear is that it will possibly reach 179 people, everybody, minus the two crew members who managed to come away from this explosion alive. so the quote from the leader of the fire department and this locality where the airport, where the airport is found, it says the cause of this accident, kim, is estimated to be the occurrence of bird strike or bad weather. and i was telling paula a couple of minutes ago, our colleague paula newton, that you see in all the video, it's almost clear as a bell, just nary a cloud in the sky. it's starting to cloud up here in the korean peninsula. but this morning was beautiful. so the question is, what could a bird strike have led to some precipitating series of events that led to

the landing gear somehow not being deployed? that is the question. bird strike again being recognized as a possibility by the authorities who are investigating on the ground right now. kim? >> yeah. and, mike, there will be certainly so many questions about what caused this. and we don't want to speculate. you've given us some possible reasons there, but there are certainly questions about the airline. and what can you tell us about jeju airlines? >> so a remarkably safe nothing like this on its record. so jeju air was founded in 2005. it's the largest budget carrier here in south korea. so you got to know kim. you know, if you don't live here in south korea, if you're going to go to any of these beautiful vacation spots across east asia or southeast asia like bangkok, jeju air is a possibility that so many families we think of immediately nothing to preclude. jeju air for families to say, oh no, i wouldn't think

it's a wildly popular airline here in south korea. again, the ceo telling reporters within the past hour that there was no issue, no series of problems or accidents with this aircraft. but to that end, we could expect to see people from boeing, specifically from washington state, where the aircraft was manufactured, coming here to the korean peninsula with, again, potentially the ntsb. this is how investigations like this have unfolded before, to just make sure that this was an incident specific to the aircraft and not something that the wider fleet of 737 800 would have to worry about. so we're waiting to see that story line unfold. but in the nearer term, investigators say they're looking to find everybody on board before they look to get the black box and see what exactly is on it. kim. >> all right. and once again, we have confirmed at least 122 people dead in this crash. mike valerio live in seoul. thank you so much. all right. i want to bring in david soucie,

who's a cnn safety analyst and a former faa safety inspector and the author of the book, malaysia airlines flight 370. and he joins us now from denver, colorado. thank you again for being here with us on this on this sad day. so listen again. it's hard. we don't have any answers right now. we don't want to speculate, but certainly we are getting hints from the videos that we're seeing. when you look at the video, what does it tell you? >> well, first of all, it's pretty obvious that the landing gear has not been deployed, not even partially deployed. >> but the second thing that really concerns me is that these aircraft, the 737, one of the most reliable and well used aircraft, not only in the united states but in europe, and it is capable of landing without landing gear down and in an emergency situation like this. >> my concern is that after it touches down, that there are blockades and and items on near

the runway that they collided with that may have caused this severe explosion once it hit the ground. so a well-designed airport would not have had any kind of blockades there. the aircraft could have landed and slide off the runway onto the grass, and it should not have been able to. it should not have had any interference with these blockades. so that would be the first thing. as an investigator i would be looking at is certainly this tragic loss of life, perhaps could have been avoided had the airport been designed and prepared for this type of emergency landing. >> yeah, that's a good point because certainly these aircraft are designed even if there is, i understand a hydraulic failure that wouldn't allow the landing gear to deploy. normally. there are still manual ways to do this. right. and as you say, these aircraft are designed so you can possibly land it without that. and also there have been so many advances in safety that, you know, we we don't often see these, these

aircraft sort of, you know, exploding in flames like this. unless of course, as you say, it hits an object. so certainly there are all these questions. what about the idea of of bird strikes? that's something that was mentioned as well. does that seem like it might be a cause here? >> you know, it's very perplexing to me because i don't know of any bird strike causing the landing gear not to be deployed. the other thing to think about is that if an if a pilot knows that they're going to have to land in an emergency situation without the landing gear, they radio head to the airport, and the airport can do some things to prepare for that. they can put foam on the runway, they can have emergency vehicles standing by so that when the aircraft does have this emergency landing. so it appears to me that no one really is really aware of the fact, at least on the ground, that the aircraft was landing without the landing gear down. so that indicates to me that possibly it was an oversight during the emergency landing to to not deploy the landing gear.

that's one of the things that i would be looking at again, as an investigator. but again, i really am hedging on speculating on the cause. and it certainly this isn't the time to do that. the time now is to make sure that there's any survivors that are dealt with and removed from the aircraft, if possible. >> yeah, it sounds as if they're they're only in the recovery phase. unfortunately. i want to lean into your expertise as an investigator. so take me through exactly what they'll be trying to find. what condition do you expect the black boxes to be in, given that the tail section seems to be in good condition, what exactly are they going to be looking for here? >> well, the first thing that i would do as an investigator is listen to the flight data recorder and listen to the communications, and then get the information from the air traffic control as well to determine why the aircraft was in that particular flight configuration. with the landing gear up, and also to find out why it was making an emergency landing. also look to see if there was any calls ahead of

time to notify the airport what's going on. so that would be my first step. the second would be the flight data recorder itself, to tell me what was going on with the systems on board the aircraft. you have to rule those things out first. if there was something that failed on the aircraft and as you mentioned, boeing and the ntsb will most likely be there at the investigation as well to determine if there's anything specific. anything beyond that specific aircraft that needs to be dealt with. flight fleetwide, which would be done immediately. so that's some of the communication concerns that the ntsb or the investigators there would have to communicate immediately to see if there's any other things that we need to do with the rest of the fleet. >> yeah. the fact that this crash happened at an airport, not in, let's say, rugged terrain on a mountain, crashed in the ocean. obviously, it will be easier to to find those answers. does in your experience, does this remind you of any any

previous incidents? >> um, again, it's too early to speculate as to the cause, but, you know, there's accidents that happen on the runway. and as you said, it makes it much easier. one investigation i did when i was stationed in hawaii was a japan airlines that crashed or that, uh, basically hard landed on the runway there in hawaii. and fortunately, in that case, the landing gear was worn down to nothing. there was fire. there was tragedy on board, but only a few people were injured by that. so there's nothing really comparable in my experience that that would, you know, give us any clues at this point until we get more information. >> all right. well, listen, i appreciate your expertise. david soucie in denver, colorado. thank you so much. and of course, we'll continue to follow this breaking news. we're also following the latest updates on the deadly azerbaijan airlines crash in kazakhstan. still ahead, vladimir putin is now speaking out after a u.s. official suggested russia could have

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airlines flight crashed after entering russian airspace on christmas day. during a phone call with azerbaijan's president ilham aliyev, putin called it a tragic incident. aliyev told putin that external interference led to a complete loss of control before the plane went down in kazakhstan, killing 38 people. cnn's nadia bashir is following the latest developments. >> well, as questions continue to mount over the possible connection between russian air defense systems and wednesday's deadly plane crash, russian president vladimir putin has issued an apology for the fact that the flight crashed after entering russian airspace around the chechen city of grozny. acknowledging, according to the kremlin, that russia's air defense systems were in fact active when the plane attempted to land in grozny. however, no admission of responsibility from moscow. investigations are still ongoing. but nearby ukrainian drone attacks in the moments preceding the crash have led some officials to believe that the plane may have been downed mistakenly by

russian anti-aircraft defenses, with officials in azerbaijan saying that the plane came under external, physical and technical interferences while in russian airspace. meanwhile, several aviation experts and u.s. officials have said that perforations seen in the fuselage are consistent with shrapnel damage from an explosion. the cause of the holes in the wreckage has not yet been confirmed. investigators are continuing to assess the evidence, including two black box recorders which were recovered from the wreckage, as well as, of course, eyewitness accounts. remarkably, 29 people out of 67 on board the flight survived the crash, some of whom filmed their final moments on the flight. one survivor describing a loud bang being heard and felt before the plane began to descend. but it could still be a matter of days or even weeks before any final conclusions are made by investigators. for now, at least five airlines have suspended flights to areas

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developments from the past 20 minutes from the last time we spoke. the flight data recorder has been recovered. the voice recorder, which is the second component of the black box system, according to our reporting, has not been found yet, but the data recorder recovered. so that will be used in concert. assumedly, one can only hope with hoping that the two people who survived this crash are in good enough condition and will ultimately survive and be able to tell investigators what exactly happened. to that end, we have new reporting from the land ministry here in south korea. they gave a briefing about what they've been able to find out so far. and i'm just going to read you part of the korean translation of what we heard a short time ago. so from this briefing, it says, quote, in the first round of investigation, the authorities listened to the communications between the pilot and the control tower before the crash. the jet initially attempted to land on runway number one when

the control tower warned of bird crash not long after, the pilot called mayday. the control tower then instructed the plane to land in the opposite direction to land on runway 19. the pilot followed the instruction, and as he was landing the plane, it hit the localizer and then crashed into the wall. so the localizer is part of the instrumentation on a plane that helps the pilot to land correctly. when we're talking about the horizontal orientation to line up with the runway. so the biggest takeaway from these quotes, translated from korean into english, is that the pilot called mayday into as this flight was ending and that the control tower warned of bird crash, which gives credence to some of the things that we had been hearing from the chief of the fire department from the locality where this happened. the bird strike is being considered a possibility that perhaps began

a chain of events that led to the cataclysmic crash that we've all witnessed earlier today. kim. >> interesting. it doesn't explain, of course, the the fact that the landing gear wasn't deployed here. still so many questions, but they may be answered with the black box. at least one of them, as you've just reported, has been found. tell us more about how south koreans are reacting to this. i know that the acting president is is now at the airport. is that right? >> that's right. so this is jason mao, and he is the third person in the month of december to hold presidential power. kim, you know as well as i do as anybody living here in south korea, that the country has been put through so much with martial law happening on the night of december 3rd into the early morning hours of december 4th. traumatizing pretty much almost everybody who lives here to the impeachment of president

yoon, the impeachment of the acting president after president yoon. and now we have a third president, acting president who holds the powers of the presidency as we wait for president yoon's impeachment trial to begin. so this just certainly adds to what the country has been put through over the past three, four weeks. now. we have a national tragedy with a death toll that we're we're preparing to reach up to numbers as high as 179 people killed in this crash. it's just you have people who are texting members of the cnn bureau left and right, making sure that we got home from our vacations. okay, just to give you some further background on this airliner, kim, and anybody who's watching us from outside south korea, this is jeju air, and it's a budget airliner, very popular for vacation destinations. and if you want to go outside of korea on a budget to places like bangkok, where this flight started from, jeju air is

certainly one of the top contenders. founded in 2005, a very clean safety record and the ceo of jeju air came out about two hours ago and said that there were no record. there was no record of anything that would have signaled that such a catastrophe could have happened on this boeing 737 800 aircraft. so that's some of the wider context of just as people are coming home from their christmas holidays and have been through so much in december, this is just another terrible thing that has befallen south korea. and it's not lost on anybody here on this otherwise perfect sunday afternoon. kim. yeah, absolutely. >> all right. mike valerio live in seoul. thank you so much. all right. well, geoffrey thomas, editor of airline news, spoke to cnn earlier and explains what might have gone wrong. here he is. >> the aircraft landed without the undercarriage deployed.

>> now, whether or not it's a little bit unclear whether or not the undercarriage collapsed on landing or whether the undercarriage was not deployed at all. >> um, this is a really serious issue. um, that i think obviously investigators will be very much focused on fundamental system that works on these aircraft and all aircraft. >> um, you know, literally tens of thousands of times a day. >> the undercarriage lever goes down, you get three greens. if you don't get three greens, you get a red or three reds or whatever, depending on which part of the gear is deployed. if that's the case, if you've got reds, then you you talk to the control tower and they will visually tell you whether or not the gear is down or not. they had perfect weather, so a fly by of the control tower would have been easily possible. and then if the gear

had not deployed, then the next stage in an emergency like that would be that all the fire engines would be laying foam all over the runway, um, and there would be all sorts of fire and emergency protocols put in place and equipment ready for this particular type of landing. so the only explanation at this stage is that for some reason, either the pilots did forgot to deploy the undercarriage and again, there's warning systems for that as well. there's a ground proximity warning system that tells the pilots that the that the the ground is too low, too close, and that the undercarriage is not deployed. so there are multiple warning systems in place to prevent such an accident. so, uh. obviously way too early to tell. uh, the black boxes will now become critical. and that's if the pilots have not if the pilot did not survive

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cnn. >> the death toll from the jeju air plane crash in south korea is now 122. 181 people were on board the boeing 737 800 when it crashed. two crew members were pulled from the wreckage alive, but officials say the rest of the passengers and crew are presumed dead. the jet was traveling from bangkok to south korea when it crash landed at muan international airport. now, the cause of the incident isn't clear, but video shows the plane hitting the runway without landing gear deployed. south korea's president has now declared the crash site a special disaster zone. all right, turning now to the u.s., where donald trump is finally taking sides in the civil war brewing among his supporters. cnn's alayna treene has more. >> president elect donald trump on saturday defended the h-1b visa program, essentially, which allows high skilled foreign workers to come and work in the united states. weighing in for the first time on an issue that has really divided his supporters this

week, i want to read for you what he told the new york post in a phone interview on saturday. he said, quote, i've always liked the visas. i have always been in favor of the visas. that's why we have them. he added i have many h-1b visas on my properties. i've been a believer in h-1b. i've used it many times. it's a great program. now to take a step back here. this is a conversation that has really kind of shown a rift among his supporters this week. on one hand, you have kind of the maga faithful, the people who have been very loyal to donald trump and many of whom have been attracted to him because of his hard line immigration views. then, on the other hand, you have a lot of the silicon valley latecomers to this. people who have supported donald trump, but also really rely on these high skilled foreign workers for their own businesses. now, all of this kind of started playing out when we saw elon musk, a close confidant of donald trump and also someone who is going to be running his new department of government efficiency initiative, started weighing in on it on x this week, really

defending the h-1b visa program. we also saw vivek ramaswamy, who's going to be running that initiative with him, defend that program as well. now, to be clear, donald trump has been ambiguous on this issue in the past. i'd remind you that back during his first administration, we actually saw h-1b visas. one excuse me, h-1b visas declined significantly during his first term, and at one point, his administration had even suspended them altogether. however, earlier this year, donald trump told a popular podcast that he actually believed that any immigrant who came to this country and graduated from a united states university should receive a green card and be allowed to stay in the country. all to say, donald trump is now saying that he supports this program, but it's unclear exactly what this will mean for policies come his next administration. now, one thing as well, i want to note, is going back to elon musk's support of this program. he weighed in again on friday, something that drew a lot of ire from far right pundits like laura loomer and ann coulter. i'm going to read to you what he said. musk said, quote, the reason i'm in

america, along with so many critical people who built spacex and tesla and hundreds of other companies that made america strong, is because of h-1b. he added, i will go to war on this issue, the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend. so as of now, it does seem that donald trump and elon musk are aligned on this issue, despite a lot of the backlash, we've seen musk and others who have supported this program receive this week. alayna treene. cnn. west palm beach, florida. >> so as the biden administration winds down, newly released images are raising doubts about his claim that he never had any business related contact with his son. cnn's marshall cohen has the details. >> new pictures released this week of joe biden, when he was vice president, meeting with some of his son, hunter biden's business associates in china. these images, released by the national archives after a lawsuit from a right wing pro-trump

legal organization and the photos show what we've known for a while, but we've never seen that there was at least one photo op between vice president joe biden in 2013 during an official visit to china, where he met some of hunter biden's business partners from the private equity firm bhr partners. you can see the pictures of hunter biden introducing his father to these chinese business executives, and they all posed all smiles for this photo op. now, not only are we seeing these images for the very first time, but we also saw pictures of joe biden introducing his son to top chinese government officials, including chinese president xi jinping, one of the most powerful figures in the world, as well as the vice president of china at the time, who was also participating in some of those bilateral meetings. so this is important because these pictures of joe meeting some of

his son's business partners undercuts the unequivocal denials that president biden has previously offered, where he said that there was never any contact between him and his son's business affairs. now, we've known for a while that those denials haven't really held up. they weren't true. they weren't accurate because it has come to light that there were some dinners, some phone calls and some meet and greets and some photo ops, like the pictures that you saw here. that being said, hunter biden himself testified to congress earlier this year and he said yes, there were photo ops. yes, maybe i put him on speakerphone once or twice, but we never discussed any substantive business, and he was not involved in the financial arrangements whatsoever. a former hunter biden business partner here in the u.s. testified that he thought hunter was selling the illusion of access, but not actually selling access. now, republicans have argued that pictures like these and all of

these contacts amount to a corrupt and illegal influence peddling scheme. but of course, i have to note that the justice department spent years investigating hunter biden and never charged him with violating any lobbying laws or any sort of corruption whatsoever. hunter biden's attorney released a statement about these pictures, saying, quote, these attacks, trying to twist these images into something they are not is just more of the same old tired, misinformation spin from some republicans who can't let go of their ridiculous conspiracy theories. marshall cohen, cnn, washington. >> plus major functioning health facility in northern gaza now sits empty and partially burned out. that's according to the world health organization and witnesses following israel's latest raid on the kamal adwan hospital. the idf says at least 240

people have been detained for questioning, claiming they are hamas and islamic jihad terrorists. some patients and staff have been transferred to another hospital, which the w.h.o. described as destroyed and nonfunctioning. as eliot cohen reports, witnesses are describing horrific scenes that played out during and after the raid. >> the israeli military says that its operation in and around kamal adwan hospital ended on saturday morning, though it only informed reporters of that fact on saturday evening. it said that it made more than 240 arrests of what it described as terrorists belonging to hamas and islamic jihad, and it made an unspecified number of additional arrests. but the upshot of the operation is that the last remaining major medical facility in northern gaza is now no longer operational. the world health organization said that the hospital is now empty. a hospital. on fire

and encircled sterling. >> kamal adwan. lulu garcia-navarro and mar-a-lago. kamal adwan. >> patients and staff gather anxiously at the entrance of northern gaza's last major functioning hospital. others fight flames. >> john harwood can ken hon doctor hussam mubasher. al niamh kennedy. can you tell me these words from a nurse at kamal adwan hospital, in the midst of an evacuation order from the israeli military doctor hussam abu safiya, the hospital's director, is one of the last doctors in northern gaza. >> he had been documenting the horror inside his hospital in the wake of an israeli offensive that began in early october, with him. >> we had spoken and appealed to the world to protect and neutralize the medical system,

but unfortunately, this is the grim reality we are witnessing. >> on friday, he was assaulted and detained by israeli forces. witnesses tell cnn on saturday, the idf said he was being questioned in gaza, suspected of being a hamas terrorist operative, but didn't provide evidence for the claim. meantime, video shared widely appears to show the front of kamal adwan hospital with people walking between a number of tanks. many appear to be holding their own clothes with hands held above their heads. >> from kamal adwan hospital to al-fakhura. they made us strip down to our underwear. it was a tough situation and they assaulted the wounded and women. >> in a briefing, an idf spokesperson said people were asked to remove clothes to ensure no one was carrying explosives. >> they separated the men from the women and took the women in groups. those who refused to remove their clothing were beaten and they took our phones. i didn't have a phone, but those who were refusing to

hand over their phones were beaten, and those who refused to take off their clothes were also beaten. >> the idf says that it had carried out targeted operations around the hospital based on intelligence regarding the presence of terrorist infrastructure and operatives there. cnn cannot confirm these claims. on friday, the world health organization said the raid took the last major health facility in north gaza out of service, adding that the systematic dismantling of the health system in gaza is a death sentence for tens of thousands of palestinians in need of health care. many patients now evacuated to gaza's other hospitals, which medical staff say are not fit for purpose. this critically ill man evacuated from kamal adwan, still in an ambulance saturday after he was evacuated a day earlier inside another hospital. this man tries to explain what happened to him, appearing to make signs of gunfire and beating. all the while, gaza's healthcare system, in a seemingly never

ending freefall. now, of the more than 240 terrorists, as the idf puts it, that it arrested. it says that some were posing as patients, others tried to flee in ambulances, and of those who were arrested that it merely suspects of being members of hamas or islamic jihad. it says that those found not to be militants will be released, and one can only assume that that also applies to the director of the kamal adwan hospital, doctor abu safiya, who was detained for questioning and was, as of saturday evening still being questioned inside gaza. elliott gotkine, cnn, jerusalem. >> earlier, we spoke with cnn political and global affairs analyst barak ravid, and he explained why the only remaining hospital in the area became a target. >> the idf still claimed that it had intelligence that there was terrorist activity in and around the hospital. until now.

the idf did not produce or present any evidence or any real evidence for that, other than some photos of two handguns and four hand grenades, which is is weapons. but, you know, it's definitely not something that, um, is like a major terrorist base inside the hospital. um, and i think what we see here and that this operation is part of a wider effort that the idf is doing in northern gaza and the kamal adwan hospital was, i think, maybe one of the key places that the idf was looking at, the fact that this hospital was still functioning was one of the things that kept palestinian civilians in this area. and the humanitarian situation in this area is very, very bad. um, and i think that the idf is trying to get all palestinian civilians out of northern gaza.

um, when you ask israeli officials whether, um, they will ever be able to come back, you hear different versions. some say yes, some say no, some say we don't know. uh, and i think this raises a lot of questions about the real intentions of what the idf is doing in northern gaza, exactly where the kamal adwan hospital was. >> the relatives of hostages held in gaza have made a new appeal for them to be returned home. saturday night, the hanukkah candles and called for their release after almost 450 days in captivity. the ceremony is in tel aviv, was led by the son of one of the hostages. but in jerusalem. emergency sirens, as you can hear, rang out after two projectiles were fired on the city from northern gaza. israeli officials say there were no reports of injuries, and the military fired

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now say that nearly everyone on board a plane that crashed in south korea has died. 181 people were traveling from bangkok on a jeju air flight. so far, rescue workers have confirmed the deaths of 122 people. two crew members have been rescued, but they say the remaining passengers and crew are presumed dead. south korean officials say hundreds of emergency personnel are at the crash site to help identify the remaining victims, and to record the exact locations where people died. now, the boeing 737 800 jet crash landed at muan international airport on sunday morning. firefighters believe the incident was caused by a landing gear malfunction. now, this video shows the plane dragging along the runway with no landing gear in sight, and moments later, the plane burst into flames. cnn correspondent mike valerio is following this breaking news from seoul. so, mike, i understand we're getting a few more details about what might

have happened. take us through what we know. >> sure. i think the most notable details that we have at this hour, kim, as we're approaching sunset here in south korea, is that the flight data recorder has been recovered. so you have the flight data recorder, and then you have the voice recorder that make up the two major components of the black box system voice recorder, according to authorities, has not been found yet. but we also kim have two entities that are responding and are part of the investigation and emergency response. specifically mentioning at this very early stage bird strike as a possibility for something that could have caused the crescendo and elements that led to this crash. so we have the land ministry of south korea and the fire department mentioning bird strike as a possibility. so i want to go to quotations that came from the land ministry briefing that south korea offered south korean authorities offered a couple of minutes ago. they said that,

quote, the jet initially attempted to land on runway number one when the control tower warned of bird crash. not long after, the pilot called mayday, quotations from the briefing held in front of reporters then goes on to say the control tower then instructed the plane to land in the opposite direction to land on runway number 19. the pilot followed the instruction as he was landing the plane. it hit the localizer, which is equipment on the ground that helps with landing, and then crashed into the wall. and then, in a similar vein, we have the head of the fire department of this locality saying the cause of this accident is estimated to be the occurrence of bird strike or bad weather. and kim, you can tell from all the video that we've been seeing, it was a nearly clear morning across the korean peninsula just a few hours ago. so for the head of the fire department to

specifically say that bird strikes or weather was a cause of this crash, it certainly confounding a whole host of avian aviation experts who we turn to here at cnn. so in terms of the greater context of what we're talking about here, this is a jeju air boeing 737 800. it's not a max. we want to point out for anybody, you know, following the saga of the boeing max airliner over the past few months and recent past, this was a flight that took off from bangkok, thailand, just after 2 a.m. local time, due in at 9 a.m. here, about 3.5 hours south of seoul, 3.5 hour car drive and no problems. registered on any data points that we have able to be that we've been able to obtain through open source intelligence right until the very end, right when authorities are now saying that the pilot declared mayday, the control tower apparently communicated that there was some sort of bird strike or

episode that the pilot needed to know about, but still unclear why the landing gear could not come down. and david soucie has said this in the past hours. why there was all of this stuff, why there was all of this equipment at the very end of the runway. this plane careened into and then exploded in myriad airports. something like that does not exist. so a whole host of questions that need to be answered in the days to come. but at the moment, we're preparing ourselves across south korea for a death toll that may reach up to 179 people, minus the two crew members who were rescued. and the hope is that those two crew members can tell authorities what exactly happened, what they were able to observe before the plane crashed. >> kim and mike, just before we go, because people might not be familiar with the the airline in question, take us through what we know about jeju airlines. >> sure, it's a wildly popular airline in korea. in east asia,

it's a budget carrier. but, you know, we're at the tail end of the holiday season. jeju air is an airline that people would turn to without hesitation to go to any vacation destinations in southeast asia and east asia. founded in 2005, this is the biggest budget carrier in south korea, and it has never had an accident like this before. kim. >> all right, i appreciate that. mike valerio live in seoul. thanks so much. i want to bring in now, mike, mark martin, and he's the ceo of martin consulting, an aviation safety firm based in asia. and he joins us now from new delhi. thank you so much for speaking with us here. so between the video, what we can see and the latest information that we just got, if you were listening in to our reporter, the fact that we heard that the plane was landing, then the tower warned of of bird strike, the pilots called mayday. and

then apparently it hit this localizer and crashed. so what more can you tell us about what you think might have caused this? >> hey, kim, thanks for having me on cnn. >> happy holidays everybody, and fly safe. from what we know so far. you know, when you got a bird strike on the 737, the 737 has got redundancies and backups and hydraulics. so you've got two engines running hydraulic systems. so even if you've got a bird strike on one engine, the second hydraulic system takes over and gives you your, your hydraulics to operate your landing gear. and even if that fails, you have something called a ram air turbine. okay. so fundamentally the 737 is a pretty well designed aircraft. and obviously boeing has spent billions of dollars on that aircraft. the bigger issue here is, is what caused that uncontrolled rapid descent. now, what we know so far, kim, is that we're dealing with

eyewitness reports and hearsay. and unless, you know, we get that flight data recorder or the fdr, the cvr, your pitch that together also get hold of the atc tapes, ads-b out data, put that in over into a room. get guys to start looking at it at it. you know we're not going to know what actually went wrong. you know the video says he came down with the landing gear. his gear was up. his flaps were not deployed. and he came. i mean, from what we know, he came pretty fast. so obviously he, you know, he's he's broken a rapid descent over there. and he slammed the aircraft down on the runway. but again, again, we're speculating. and you know, let's respect the dead. there are a lot of lives lost. the crew's know more. and i think the faster we get into an independent investigation. and because this is a boeing, you know, boeing needs to get involved with this. and so does the faa because, um, something

like this. you never hear of a boeing 737 having such, you know, incidents or such a crash for that matter. >> yeah. that's right. and just you're mentioning boeing there. i know they are offering their condolences. they're saying this. i'll read their statement. we are in contact with jeju air regarding flights to one six and stand ready to support them. we extend our deepest condolences to the families who lost loved ones, and our thoughts remain with the passengers and crew. right. >> um, right, right. because, you know, boeing has been embedded in the korean market for, for, for an insane amount of years. and over the last 20 years, boeing's boeing's got its own trading facility, instructors, you know, a whole training setup that boeing has established over in south korea. so the quality of boeing pilots in south korea is pretty good. i mean, and i know some of them, but here we're dealing with a

situation where clearly everything failed. it was something catastrophic occurred on that aircraft. and even if you got a dual birdstrike on both engines, all you can still bring that airplane down quite safely. so, you know, like i said, let's not speculate. let's, you know, everything is he said she said and, you know, hearsay, you know, let's break the let's break that out. let's, you know, break it down to a proper full blown investigation, you know, let the faa get involved. you know, you know, they should be there checking the aircraft out. and it's going to take time. kim. this aircraft has to be pieced together in a hangar. and but it's got to happen fast and tough timing with the holiday season. >> yeah, absolutely. and you mentioned south korea. we know that there as a nation very highly rated in terms of their aviation record. i'm wondering if the crew safety record. >> yeah, yeah. >> and our safety record, i wonder if our control room can pop up the live images that we were seeing earlier of what

they're actually doing right now. and we're seeing, uh, you know, firefighters and other personnel sort of combing through the wreckage. there, going around, uh, looking in the area of the crash. take us through exactly what what they're doing right now. i know, of course, they are trying to find the remains of passengers, um, who are deceased and and take us through sort of what information that is is most vital right now. >> so i think the priority would be to get everybody out of the aircraft in whichever state or condition they were in. you know, when you're assumed or presumed someone dead, sometimes, sadly or unfortunately, they're not. and you've got to get them immediate medical attention because as much information that you can get from passengers on board and survivors is absolutely critical to piecing, you together, that puzzle together to figure out what went wrong.

and, you know, from from what we're seeing so far is that, you know, if you look at the end of the runway, you are going to have that kind of equipment. but what it appears that this guy turned back and he said, look, i'm going to bring the airplane down now, okay? and get me any spot to land. and he did that. and i guess he overshot. from what we know so far from the video, kim is he overshot. and when he overshot, you know, you got no braking, you got no landing gear, you can't pull your thrust reverser back, so it's never going to you're never going to bring your aircraft to a complete halt or stop. um, and that's what led him to ramp the aircraft into the wall and into the ground equipment. >> yeah. uh, as we're looking at, again, live pictures of crews sort of scouring the grounds there, trying to find remains of passengers. we have 122 confirmed dead. two people have been saved, two crew members, uh, pilots go through

simulations of all of these types of situations, right. in terms of some of the things that might have been involved here. plane. uh, bird strikes and landing gear. not deploying and so on. right. >> oh, yeah. i mean, some of the, the the flight simulator scenarios are, are aggressive or nasty. i mean, you know, they throw everything at you. engine failure, bird strike. you know, you know, doors blowing out. you know, i mean pretty much, you know, the worst that can happen. and pilots are trained to bring an aircraft down with the highest level of safety procedures. and, you know, everything is taught to you by the book. you're not there to do your own thing. and, you know, clearly, from what we know so far, is that the pilots brought the aircraft down, even if the aircraft was completely incapacitated. so you had an approach, you had a touchdown and everything was going fine from what we saw from the video. but you know, you know, tough luck. he just couldn't

stop the aircraft in time. and uh, and you know what we would really establish. and i think what's going to be a quick fix here is that once we get the cockpit tapes out, the cvr and the atc tapes and the fdr, uh, i think all of those should, should tell us, at least initially, what went wrong. and the larger part of the investigation is when we start piecing the, you know, start piecing the aircraft together in a hangar. that's when we know why did certain things didn't work with that aircraft, you know, why did they have to, uh, come in at that high speed? uh, why did the engines completely shut off? was it one? was it diesel? so there are just so many questions right now. and kim, as i said before, let's respect the dead. you know, we're dealing with a whole lot of people who have lost their lives. and as much as least speculation. but this is important. and i think, you know, we've got to wake those faa guys out of the, you know, out of their holiday spirit and

get them down over to korea, because this is critical and this has to be sorted now. >> yeah. still so many questions about this, this tragedy. mark martin, thank you so much for being here with us. i appreciate it. >> hey, kim, thanks for having me. and stay safe and fly safe. >> all right. >> well, we're also following the latest updates on the deadly azerbaijan airlines crash in kazakhstan. still ahead, vladimir putin is now speaking out after a u.s. official suggested russia could have been involved. stay with us. >> and it has been one wild year. >> i know that whole live stream was crazy. >> what? oh, wait, you mean the rumors about me and the french pole vaulter? who's saying that? is it everybody? i have zero idea what you're talking about. and you think i'm the one that doesn't follow the news? i did like that one new song about coffee. espresso. oh, i'd love one, actually. oh, sweetie, you have been following actual news, right? oh, boy. >> new year's eve live with anderson and andy. live coverage starts at eight on cnn

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president ilham aliyev, putin called it a tragic incident. aliyev told putin that external interference led to a complete loss of control before the plane went down in kazakhstan, killing 38 people. cnn's dana bash is following the latest developments. >> as well as questions continue to mount over the possible connection between russian air defense systems and wednesday's deadly plane crash. russian president vladimir putin has issued an apology for the fact that the flight crashed after entering russian airspace around the chechen city of grozny, acknowledging, according to the kremlin, that russia's air defense systems were in fact active when the plane attempted to land in grozny. however, no admission of responsibility from moscow. investigations are still ongoing, but nearby ukrainian drone attacks in the moments preceding the crash have led some officials to believe that the plane may have been downed mistakenly by russian anti-aircraft defenses, with officials in azerbaijan saying

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well enough to be able to speak to investigators, because that could be the second key part of trying to figure out what happened here. in addition to finding the data recorder. you know, the one half component of the black box system, the other half being the voice recorder. so if we're able to hear from one or both of the crew members who survived, that certainly could be a game changer in terms of figuring out what happened here. and, you know, from covering so many of these terrible tragedies, i think this one certainly stands out from the fact that very early in this investigation, we have entities coming out and specifically saying bird strike could be a possibility and saying that publicly to the nation of south korea. that has been through so much between martial law and political upheaval over the past month, saying a lot in terms of what they think could have caused this very early in the investigation. so when we were

with you, kim, about 20 minutes ago, we had new reporting. there was a briefing from the land ministry of south korea, one of the entities that's investigating. and to paraphrase, we don't have to put up the long quotation, but to paraphrase, they essentially said that this plane from bangkok was coming in for a landing. the control tower warns the plane that bird strikes could be possible in the area. there are birds in the area, and one minute after that call from the control tower, the pilot of this plane declares mayday. and then what we see in all of this terrible video begins to unfold. the leader of the fire department has also said in comments to the press, the public earlier today, the cause of this accident is estimated to be the occurrence of bird strike or bad weather. and you look at our beautiful pictures or the pictures of the beautiful weather this morning and wind, you know, certain elements of

the weather were not part of any kind of, you know, tableaux that you would imagine could cause a plane crash. so again, we are looking as this death toll continues to rise, the fear that so many are bracing themselves for across this country is that the death toll could reach, and we fear it very well may up to 179 people, with the total on the flight roster being 181 people and two of them surviving. can we also, since the last time we joined, you were able to confirm that it is two thai nationals and the rest on board. according to our reporting, are citizens of south korea. most of the people on board hail from families that were very close to this locality, which is about three and a half hours drive south of seoul, where we're broadcasting from. so again, a lot of unanswered questions, but notable elements of this investigation, participants in this investigation are saying bird strike, but where the tension lies in that is looking at the video where the landing

gear is not down and wondering, as investigators are trying to piece this together, how one thing could potentially lead to the other. kim. >> yeah, so many questions. and certainly people who want answers. the families of those loved ones. unbelievable tragedy for so many families. and we have live pictures from the airport where families are presumably waiting for news of their loved ones. and we can see it there. just an unbelievable tragedy for for so many people in, in south korea, their. mike valerio, thank you so much for being here with us. appreciate it. thanks, kim. and david soucie, who is a cnn's safety analyst and a former faa safety inspector and the author of the book malaysia airlines flight 370. and he joins us now from denver, colorado. thank you again for being here with us on this on this sad day. so listen again.

it's hard. we don't have any answers right now. we don't want to speculate, but certainly we are getting hints from the videos that we're seeing. when you look at the video, what does it tell you? >> well, first of all, it's pretty obvious that the landing gear has not been deployed, not even partially deployed. but the second thing that really concerns me is that these aircraft, the 737, one of the most reliable and well used aircraft, not only in the united states but in europe, and it it is capable of landing without landing gear down and in an emergency situation like this, my concern is that after it touches down, that there are blockades and and items on near the runway that they collided with that may have caused this severe explosion once it hit the ground. so a well-designed airport would not have had any kind of blockades there. the aircraft could have landed and slide off the runway onto the

grass, and it should not have been able to. it should not have had any interference with these blockades. so that would be the first thing. as an investigator i would be looking at is certainly this tragic loss of life, perhaps could have been avoided had the airport been designed and prepared for this type of emergency landing. >> yeah, that's a good point because certainly these aircraft are designed even if there is, i understand a hydraulic failure that wouldn't allow the landing gear to deploy. normally. there are still manual ways to do this. right. and as you say, these aircraft are designed so you can possibly land it without that. and also there have been so many advances in safety that, you know, we we don't often see these these aircraft sort of, you know, exploding in flames like this. unless of course, as you say, it hits an object. so certainly there are all these questions. what about the idea of of bird strikes? that's something that was mentioned as

well. does that seem like it might be a cause here? >> you know, it's very perplexing to me because i don't know of any bird strike causing the landing gear not to be deployed. the other thing to think about is that if an if a pilot knows that they're going to have to land in an emergency situation without the landing gear, they radio head to the airport, and the airport can do some things to prepare for that. they can put foam on the runway, they can have emergency vehicles standing by so that when the aircraft does have this emergency landing. so it appears to me that no one really is really aware of the fact, at least on the ground, that the aircraft was landing without the landing gear down. so that indicates to me that possibly it was an oversight during the emergency landing to to not deploy the landing gear. that's one of the things that i would be looking at again, as an investigator. but again, i really am hedging on speculating on the cause. and it certainly this isn't the time to do that. the time now is to make sure that there's any survivors that are dealt with and removed from the

aircraft, if possible. >> yeah, it sounds as if they're they're only in the recovery phase. unfortunately. i want to lean into your expertise as an investigator. so take me through exactly what they'll be trying to find. what condition do you expect the black boxes to be in, given that the the tail section seems to be in good condition, what exactly are they going to be looking for here? >> well, the first thing that i would do as an investigator is listen to the flight data recorder and listen to the communications, and then get the information from the air traffic control as well to determine why the aircraft was in that particular flight configuration. with the landing gear up, and also to find out why it was making an emergency landing. also look to see if there was any calls ahead of time to notify the airport what's going on. so that would be my first step. the second would be the flight data recorder itself, to tell me what was going on with the systems on board the aircraft. you have to rule those things out first. if there was something that failed on the

aircraft and as you mentioned, boeing and the ntsb will most likely be there at the investigation as well to determine if there's anything specific. anything beyond that specific aircraft that needs to be dealt with, flight fleetwide, which would be done immediately. so that's some of the communication concerns that the ntsb or the investigators there would have to communicate immediately to see if there's any other things that we need to do with the rest of the fleet. yeah. >> the fact that this crash happened at an airport, not in, let's say, rugged terrain on a mountain crashed in the ocean. obviously, it will be easier to to find those answers. does in your experience, does this remind you of any any previous incidents um, again, it's too early to speculate as to the cause. >> but, you know, there's accidents that happen on the runway. and as you said, it makes it much easier. one investigation i did when i was stationed in hawaii was at

japan airlines that crashed or that, uh, basically hard landed on the runway there in hawaii. and fortunately, in that case, the landing gear was worn down to nothing. there was fire. there was tragedy on board, but only a few people were injured by that. so there's nothing really comparable in my experience that that would, you know, give us any clues at this point until we get more information. >> all right. well, listen, appreciate your expertise. david soucie in denver, colorado, thank you so much. and we'll have much more ahead on our breaking news out of south korea. please stay with cnn. >> you only come across an artist like luther vandross. once in a lifetime. >> he was a boss from the beginning. >> luther said, i have a sound in my head. i got to get it out. you are my shining star. >> it was the most exciting time in the world. >> his life had extremely joyful moments and some really difficult moments. >> if we were to be able to talk to luther as fans, we

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240 people have been detained for questioning, claiming they're hamas and islamic jihad terrorists. some patients and staff have been transferred to another hospital, which the w.h.o. described as destroyed and nonfunctioning. as elliot gutkin reports, witnesses are describing horrific scenes that played out during and after the raid. >> the israeli military says that its operation in and around kamal adwan hospital ended on saturday morning. they had only informed reporters of that fact on saturday evening. it said that it made more than 240 arrests of what it described as terrorists belonging to hamas and islamic jihad, and it made an unspecified number of additional arrests. but the upshot of the operation is that the last remaining major medical facility in northern gaza is now no longer operational. the world health organization said that the hospital is now empty. a hospital. on fire

and encircled sterling iran kamal adwan. >> lulu garcia-navarro. alayna treene. kamal adwan. >> patients and staff gather anxiously at the entrance of northern gaza's last major functioning hospital. others fight flames. >> john harwood mccann, a. ken hon doctor. hussam mubasher al you can imagine it you get these words from a nurse at kamal adwan hospital in the midst of an evacuation order from the israeli military doctor hussam abu safiya, the hospital's director, is one of the last doctors in northern gaza. >> he had been documenting the horror inside his hospital in the wake of an israeli offensive that began in early october and quickly became. >> had. >> we had spoken and appealed to the world to protect and neutralize the medical system,

but unfortunately, this is the grim reality we are witnessing. >> on friday, he was assaulted and detained by israeli forces. witnesses tell cnn on saturday, the idf said he was being questioned in gaza, suspected of being a hamas terrorist operative, but didn't provide evidence for the claim. meantime, video shared widely appears to show the front of kamal adwan hospital with people walking between a number of tanks. many appear to be holding their own clothes with hands held above their heads. >> from kamal adwan hospital to al-fakhura. they made us stripped down to our underwear. it was a tough situation and they assaulted the wounded and women. >> in a briefing, an idf spokesperson said people were asked to remove clothes to ensure no one was carrying explosives. >> they separated the men from the women and took the women in groups. those who refused to remove their clothing were beaten and they took our phones. i didn't have a phone, but those who were refusing to

hand over their phones were beaten, and those who refused to take off their clothes were also beaten. >> the idf says that it had carried out targeted operations around the hospital, based on intelligence regarding the presence of terrorist infrastructure and operatives there. cnn cannot confirm these claims. on friday, the world health organization said the raid took the last major health facility in north gaza out of service, adding that the systematic dismantling of the health system in gaza is a death sentence for tens of thousands of palestinians in need of health care. many patients now evacuated to gaza's other hospitals, which medical staff say are not fit for purpose. this critically ill man evacuated from kamal adwan, still in an ambulance saturday after he was evacuated a day earlier. inside another hospital. this man tries to explain what happened to him, appearing to make signs of gunfire and beating. all the while, gaza's health care system, in a seemingly never

ending freefall. now, of the more than 240 terrorists, as the idf puts it, that it arrested. it says that some were posing as patients, others tried to flee in ambulances, and of those who were arrested that it merely suspects of being members of hamas or islamic jihad. it says that those found not to be militants will be released, and one can only assume that that also applies to the director of the kamal adwan hospital. doctor abu safiya, who was detained for questioning and was, as of saturday evening still being questioned inside gaza. elliott gotkine, cnn, jerusalem. >> meanwhile, israel's prime minister is set to undergo surgery to remove his prostate in the coming hours. his office says benjamin netanyahu had a medical exam on wednesday when doctors discovered a urinary tract infection caused by a benign, enlarged prostate. the infection has already been treated with antibiotics. israel's government is set to

hold its meeting, planned for sunday. now, cnn has reached out to netanyahu's office to find out who will fill in as interim leader during the procedure. the prime minister is 75 years old. all right. to tbilisi, georgia, now, where the parliament has sworn in the controversial new president, mikheil kavelashvili this hour. the current president has been speaking on camera to supporters who oppose what the ruling georgia dream party is doing, and she calls it an anti-constitutional farce. kavelashvili didn't win a general election. rather, he was controversially appointed by the parliament. opposition parties have labeled the procedure illegitimate based on unfair parliamentary elections. there have been weeks of protests calling for new elections to set things right and to put the country back on track to negotiate. joining the european union. all right, turning now to the u.s., where donald trump is finally taking sides in the civil war brewing among his supporters. cnn's alayna treene has more. >> president elect donald trump

on saturday defended the h-1b visa program, which allows high skilled foreign workers to come and work in the united states. weighing in for the first time on an issue that has really divided his supporters this week, i want to read for you what he told the new york post. in a phone interview on saturday. he said, quote, i've always liked the visas. i have always been in favor of the visas. that's why we have them. he added i have many h-1b visas on my properties. i've been a believer in h-1b. i've used it many times. it's a great program. now to take a step back here. this is a conversation that has really kind of shown a rift among his supporters this week. on one hand, you have kind of the maga faithful, the people who have been very loyal to donald trump and many of whom have been attracted to him because of his hard line immigration views. then, on the other hand, you have a lot of the silicon valley latecomers to this people who have supported donald trump, but also really rely on these high skilled foreign workers for their own businesses. now, all of this kind of started playing out

when we saw elon musk, a close confidant of donald trump and also someone who is going to be running his new department of government efficiency initiative, started weighing in on it on x this week, really defending the h-1b visa program. we also saw vivek ramaswamy, who's going to be running that initiative with him, defend that program as well. now, to be clear, donald trump has been ambiguous on this issue in the past. i'd remind you that back during his first administration, we actually saw h-1b visas. one excuse me, h-1b visas declined significantly during his first term, and at one point, his administration had even suspended them altogether. however, earlier this year, donald trump told a popular podcast that he actually believed that any immigrant who came to this country and graduated from a united states university should receive a green card and be allowed to stay in the country. all to say, donald trump is now saying that he supports this program, but it's unclear exactly what this will mean for policies come his next administration. now, one thing as well, i want to note is going back to elon

musk's support of this program. he weighed in again on friday, something that drew a lot of ire from far right pundits like laura loomer and ann colter. i'm going to read to you what he said. musk said, quote, the reason i'm in america, along with so many critical people who built spacex, x, tesla and hundreds of other companies that made america strong is because of h-1b. he added, i will go to war on this issue, the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend. so as of now, it does seem that donald trump and elon musk are aligned on this issue, despite a lot of the backlash, we've seen musk and others who have supported this program receive this week. alayna treene. cnn. west palm beach, florida. >> all right. much more to come here on cnn. our special coverage of the deadly crash of a jeju air jetliner will continue with the very latest from south korea. >> serious? >> welcome to times square.

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presumed dead. the boeing 737 800 crash landed in muan, south korea, a short time ago. cnn spoke with an aviation expert who says he noticed a few unusual things about the plane's approach to the airport. >> the landing video makes it clear that the landing gear was not down. we don't know why that's the case. the landing video also makes it clear that the leading edge slats on the wings were not lowered, which helps slow the airplane as it comes into land. and the video that i've seen in that still shot that you have on your website does not make it clear whether or not the trailing edge flaps were deployed. it appeared to me that they were not. so the question is, why weren't the slats deployed? why weren't slats flaps deployed? why weren't the landing gear deployed? was there an engine problem? all of these could combine to as your consultant,

david sushi, also pointed out. could that have caused cockpit confusion, or was the cockpit flight crew overwhelmed by handling three emergencies at the same time? we also don't know at this stage what communication there was with the control tower. we don't know at this stage how far down the runway the airplane touched down and why it was not able to stop before exiting the runway and running into that embankment. those are all areas that investigators will be looking at and stay with. >> cnn for more on the crash and the investigation. i'm kim brunhuber. our breaking news continues after a short break.

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