The emergency landing of Jeju Air Flight 2216 looked highly skilled, experts say, but all except two of the 181 people on board were killed when the Boeing 737-800 hit a wall and burst into flames.
As South Korean investigators probe the causes of the country's worst-ever aviation disaster on home soil, here's a look at what could have gone wrong:
The flight from Bangkok to southwestern Muan International Airport in South Korea was warned of a bird strike by the control tower as it came in to land.
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