On Sunday morning, the commercial plane skidded off the runway, crashed into a wall and burst into flames while landing at Muan International Airport – killing all but two of its 181 passengers.

A widely used Boeing aircraft, the 737-800, was involved in Sunday’s crash-landing of a Jeju Air flight that killed 179 people.

South Korea's transport ministry has extended special inspections of all 101 of the Boeing 737-800 jets run by the country's airlines by a week, after the worst aviation disaster on the country's soil,

The South Korean government has said it will conduct a safety inspection of all Boeing 737-800 aircraft used by domestic airlines after the Jeju Air crash on Sunday, and another plane fault on Monday morning, according to a local news source.

Boeing shares were down as much as 6% Monday morning. Authorities in Korea believe a bird strike could have been a factor in the fatal crash.

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean officials said Monday they will conduct safety inspections of all Boeing 737-800 aircrafts operated by the country's airlines, as they struggle to determine what caused a plane crash that killed 179 people a day earlier.

South Korea's government said on Monday it will extend the shutdown of Muan International Airport by a week to Jan. 14, citing the ongoing investigation into the crash of a Jeju Air jet that killed 179 passengers on board.

Bird feathers have been found in an engine recovered from the site of the deadly Jeju Air flight which crashed-landedand killed 179 people in South Korea, investigators said. The Boeing 737 -800 skidded off a runway at Muan International Airport and hit a concrete fence,