South Korean officials are launching an investigation into the cause of the fire that engulfed an Air Busan passenger plane, with eyewitness accounts suggesting a power bank may have sparked the blaze.

South Korea’s authorities investigating last month’s Jeju Air plane crash have submitted a preliminary accident report to the UN aviation agency and to the authorities of the United States, France and Thailand,

South Korea released on Monday a preliminary report on its investigation into a Jeju Air crash on Dec. 29 at Muan International Airport that killed 179 people in the deadliest air disaster on the country's soil.