When South Korea's acting President Choi Sang-mok arrived at the scene of the deadliest air disaster on the country's soil on Sunday, he had been on the job for less than 48 hours. Choi, the country's finance minister,

The Jeju Air plane, which was carrying 181 people, veered off the runway and into a wall before bursting into flames. Two crew members were pulled from the wreckage but the remaining missing are now presumed dead.

With at least 85 people killed, the crash marked the worst aviation accident involving a South Korean airline since a Korean Air jet slammed into a hill in Guam, a U.S. territory in the western Pacific, in 1997. That crash killed 229 of the 254 people on board.