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A deadly plane crash in South Korea. Live from the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning

Report from the BBC World Service. I'm Gideon Long,

standing in for Leanne Burne. Good morning. South Korea's acting president has ordered a safety

inspection of the country's entire airline system after 179 people were killed in a plane crash on Sunday.

The Juju Airplane burst into flames as it crash landed at South Korea's Mwan International Airport, killing everyone on board apart from the two crew members.

The BBC's Nick Marsh has been looking at the impact on Jiu Air.

The share price has gone down a lot this morning in training in South Korea, as you'd expect, hit a record low.

It was down as much as 15% this morning

might seem trivial to talk about these things, you know, given the scale of the human tragedy

that we saw yesterday and that's continuing into today, but it does, you know, form part of

this one big picture of what's happening. I suppose, in terms of what happens now, we're

still waiting for more details to emerge. There's still lots of unanswered questions as

regards to the potential bird strike or why the landing gear didn't go down. The bosses of

Jejuweer in the meantime have already apologised. South Korea's government is opening an investigation

into what happened.

The plane was a Boeing 737800. The company has issued a statement expressing its condolences to the families involved.

They said that they were ready to support the investigators in Korea.

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