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.

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Seoul: The initial report on last month's Jeju Air crash in South Korea revealed traces of bird strikes in the plane's engines. However, the exact cause of the accident, which resulted in the deaths of all but two of the 181 people on board,