A South Korean Jeju Air passenger jet crashed on landing at Muan International Airport on Sunday, killing 179 people in the country's deadliest air disaster.
Ultimately, the plane crashed, killing 179 people in South Korea’s worst aviation disaster. A standard pre-flight inspection found “no issues” with the Jeju Air passenger plane before it crashed.
Authorities are still scrambling to pinpoint the exact reason why the aircraft – Jeju Air Flight 2216 from Thailand to South Korea – malfunctioned while landing on Sunday, leading it to crash ...
South Korea’s acting President Choi Sang-mok on Monday ordered the transport ministry to carry out an emergency safety inspection of the country’s airline operation system. Jeju Air CEO Kim E-bae neither confirmed nor denied reports that a bird strike was the cause of the crash.
South Korean investigators probing a Jeju Air crash which killed 179 people in the worst aviation disaster on its soil said Wednesday they will send one of the retrieved black boxes to the United States for analysis.
The Jeju Air crash in South Korea is an outlier in a country considered to be a gold standard for airline safety.
South Korean officials will conduct safety inspections of all Boeing 737-800 aircraft operated by the country's airlines after a deadly Jeju Air crash.
A Jeju Air passenger plane carrying 181 people skidded down the runway at Muan International Airport in South Korea on Sunday, December 29, before crashing. The aircraft appeared to land without ...
In fact, only Middle Eastern LCC Air Arabia bested Jeju's utilization rate last year at 12.5 daily hours. Data from aviation analytics firm Cirium shows that Jeju was flying its planes an average of 11.6 hours per day—this is considerably higher than the likes of Ryanair (9.3 hours), AirAsia (9 hours), and VietJet (10 hours).
Before it suffered the deadliest crash in South Korea's history, budget airline Jeju Air was moving fast: racking up record passenger numbers and flying its aircraft more than domestic rivals and many of its global peers,
A flight of South Korean low-cost carrier Jin Air Co. from Japan to South Korea was grounded Tuesday due to a mechanical issue with the aircraft, according to industry sources Thursday. The Boeing 737-800 aircraft of Jin Air flight LJ350 from Japan's Kitakyushu Airport to Incheon International