The current theory is that the Boeing plane sucked a bird into its engine and the jet's landing gear apparently failed to deploy.

A jetliner skidded off a runway, slammed into a concrete fence and burst into flames Sunday in South Korea after its landing gear apparently failed to deploy. All but two of the 181 people on board were killed in one of the country’s worst aviation disasters,

A 33-year-old woman recounted tearfully, "My sister was on that plane. She had always suffered, but now that her circumstances had improved, she went to have fun," she told a local outlet.