South Korean authorities have extended the closure of a southwestern airport where a Jeju Air plane crashed and killed 179 people onboard, the land ministry said Monday.

Family members have gathered at the South Korea’s Muan International Airport for news of their relatives killed in a fiery plane crash.

Two crew members were rescued, and one survivor, who suffered multiple fractures, told doctors: "When I woke up, I'd already been rescued."

The deadliest accident in aviation history occurred in 1977, when two Boeing 747 jumbo jets collided on a foggy runway on the Spanish island of Tenerife, killing 583 of the 644 people on board the planes. Spanish investigators blamed the captain of the KLM 747 for taking off without clearance from air traffic controllers.

The aircraft has smashed into a wall at Muan International Airport in South Korea. Yonhap news agency reports it was also carrying six flight attendants.

A Jeju Air Boeing 737-800, operating as Flight 7C2216 from Bangkok, Thailand, crashed while attempting to land at Muan International Airport in South Korea on Sunday morning, resulting in at least 28 confirmed fatalities.

Only two people out of 181 on board are thought to have survived a devastating passenger plane crash in South Korea. Jeju Air flight 7C 2216 from Bangkok was carrying 175 passengers and six crew when disaster struck at Muan International Airport.

Joo Jong-wan, the deputy transport minister for civil aviation, acknowledged that safety measures were not sufficient when building the embankment, but said they were done in line

South Korea’s transport minister is resigning because he feels “heavy responsibility” for the Jeju Air crash that killed 179 people last month. A Jeju Air aircraft carrying 181 passengers and crew crashed at the Muan international airport on 29 December in what was the country’s worst air disaster.

South Korea's transport minister Park Sang-woo said on Tuesday that he intends to step down from his position to take responsibility for the deadly crash of Jeju Air's Boeing jet on December 29, which killed 179 people on board.

Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Park Sang-woo offered to resign on Tuesday, taking responsibility for the recent Jeju Air plane crash that claimed the lives of 179 out of 181 passengers and crew.