South Korean investigators said Saturday they were close to finalising the transcript of the cockpit voice recorder from a fatal plane crash that left 179 people dead last week.

The flight, operated by Jeju Air, was landing when it went off the runway in Muan, in the country’s southwest. Only two people survived the crash.

South Korean officials are struggling to determine what caused a deadly plane crash that killed nearly 180 people on board, with the nation saddened, shocked and ashamed over the country’s worst aviation disaster in decades.

After over 100 people were killed in a South Korea plane accident, here are the worst accidents and crashes in aviation history.

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.

Only two people were rescued and 179 people died in the plane crash on Sunday morning at the international airport in the city of Muan in southwestern South Korea. All bodies have been recovered. Source: South Korean news agency Yonhap,

Investigators from the NTSB and Boeing were expected to join the investigation into South Korea's deadliest air crash.

South Korean officials are looking for the cause of a passenger jet crash that killed 179 people, in one of the deadliest disasters in the country’s aviation history.

After two leaders were impeached in as many weeks, a deadly plane crash has prompted South Korea’s feuding political camps to temporarily halt a protracted power struggle.

The control tower issued a bird strike warning and shortly afterward the pilots declared mayday, South Korean officials said.