Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The flight was under the command of 42-year-old Captain Park Yong-chul (Korean: 박용철; Hanja: 朴鏞喆) [6] The captain had close to 9,000 hours of flight time, including 3,192 on the Boeing 747, and had recently received a flight safety award for successfully landing a 747 that had suffered an engine failure at low altitude. [7]
Jeju Air's chief executive said the airline will reduce its winter air traffic by up to 15 per cent and aim to secure trust following the death of 179 people in the plane crash.
Korean Air Flight 801 (KE801, KAL801) was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by Korean Air. The flight crashed on August 6, 1997, on approach to Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport, in the United States territory of Guam, killing 228 [a] of the 254 people aboard.
The two sole survivors aboard the Jeju Air plane crash that killed 179 people lived because they were seated at the rear of the aircraft — which is statistically the safest place to be on a ...
- In August 1997, Korean Air flight 801, a Boeing 747-3B5B (747-300) operated by Korean Air, ploughed into a hill near Guam's international airport, killing 228 out of 254 persons on board.
The accident is the deadliest aviation disaster involving a South Korean airliner since the 1997 crash of Korean Air Flight 801 in Guam and became the deadliest aviation accident on South Korean soil, surpassing the 2002 crash of Air China Flight 129 that killed 129 people. [2] This was the first fatal accident in Jeju Air's 19-year history. [3]
Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509, 1999, which crashed shortly after takeoff from London; Korean Air Flight 801 (KE801, KAL801), 1997, a charter flight from South Korea to Guam which crashed on landing approach; Asiana Air Flight 733 (OZ733, AAR733), 1993 a flight between Seoul and Mokpo, South Korea that crashed into Mt. Ungeo
It was the first fatal flight for Jeju Air, a low-cost airline founded in 2005 that ranks behind Korean Air Lines and Asiana Airlines as the country's third largest carrier by passenger numbers.