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Air Canada News: An Air Canada flight made a scary touchdown at Halifax airport as the aircraft skid down the runway and caught fire following touchdown with a broken landing gear. No casualties were reported in the incident. Just hours before this, a Jeju Air flight veered off the runway and hit the fence while landing at Muan International Airport in South Korea on Sunday, killing 179 out of the 181 on board.

The incident occurred when flight 7C2216 returning from Thailand’s Bangkok crash-landed at Muan Airport, carrying 175 passengers and six crew members. The incident took place at 9:07 am (local time) at the southwestern coastal airport, a key regional hub in South Korea’s South Jeolla Province.

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Purported videos, claimed to be of the incident, showed wings of the aircraft scraping the runway and causing a fire.

The aircraft in question reportedly belongs to PAL Airlines which was operating Air Canada flight AC2259 between St. John’s and Halifax.

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What Caused Jeju Air Flight 7C2216 To Crash?

-South Korean news agency Yonhap, citing authorities, reported that a malfunction of the landing gear is likely behind the cause of the crash. Airport authorities said that the flight was attempting a crash landing due to a malfunction in its landing gear when the crash occurred. Its first landing attempt had failed earlier.

-They added that the plane, however, appeared to have failed to reduce its speed until it reached the end of the runway and crashed into the wall at the outer edge of the airport, erupting into a fireball.

-Local fire chief, however, said that a bird strike and adverse weather was likely the cause behind the fatal crash.

-"The cause of the accident is presumed to be a bird strike combined with adverse weather conditions. However, the exact cause will be announced following a joint investigation," Lee Jeong-hyun, chief of Muan fire station, said during a briefing, according to Reuters. However, an official statement on the cause of the plane crash is awaited.