By Ju-min Park and Dogyun Kim

MUAN COUNTY, South Korea, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Jeon

Je-young keeps playing the video of the plane with his daughter

and another 180 people on board slamming into a wall and

bursting into flames at a South Korean airport.

His daughter Mi-sook died on board. He still can't believe

it.

"When I saw the accident video, the plane seemed out of

control," said 71-year-old Jeon. "The pilots probably had no

choice but to do it. My daughter, who is only in her mid-40s,

ended up like this. This is unbelievable."

Mi-sook was a warm-hearted child, he said. She brought some

food and next year's calendar to his house on Dec. 21, which

became his last brief moment with her.

"She is much nicer than my son, sometimes asking me to go

out for a meal," Jeon recalled, showing his last exchanges with

his daughter on his mobile phone.

The deadliest air accident ever in South Korea killed 179

people on Sunday, when an airliner belly-landed and skidded off

the end of the runway, erupting in a fireball at the Muan

International Airport.

Jeju Air flight 7C2216, arriving from the Thai

capital Bangkok with 175 passengers and six crew on board, was

seen skidding down the runway with no visible landing gear

before crashing into navigation equipment and a wall in an

explosion of flames and debris.

Only two people - both crew members - survived and were

being treated for injuries.

GRIEF AND RAGE

Authorities called out the names of some of those killed in

the crash, triggering an explosion of grief and rage among the

passengers' families gathered in the airport's arrival area.

They screamed, wept and collapsed on the floor of the

terminal where their loved ones had been due to return home.

Crime scene investigators collected saliva swaps from

families to run DNA tests to identify the victims.

Jeon's daughter had been on her way home after travelling

with friends to Bangkok for the Christmas holiday. She leaves

behind a devastated family, including a husband and teenaged

daughter.

"The water near the airport is not deep. Here are softer

fields than this cement runway. Why couldn't the pilot land

there instead?" Jeon said.

Fire officials reported that the impact of the crash had

left the plane "almost completely destroyed".

"Through collision twice and explosion, most of the

passengers were thrown off the plane, though two crew members

luckily survived at the tail end," said Yeom Dong-bu, a Muan

firefighter who was dispatched to the scene.

"I used to work on ambulances so I've seen this kind of

terrible stuff like car crashes, but not on this scale," he

added.

Mi-sook was identified by her fingerprints, and her family

is looking for a funeral home near her town of Gwangju to

transport her body there.

"She was almost home, so (she saw) no need to call the

family (to leave any final message). She thought she was coming

home," Jeon said.