Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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]
Watch: Moment South Korea plane skids along runway before fiery crash. Monday 30 December 2024 05:30, Alisha Rahaman Sarkar. A Jeju Air passenger plane carrying 181 people skidded down the runway ...
A plane carrying 181 people crashed at an airport in South Korea in late December, killing 179. Photos and videos show the aircraft overrunning a runway before being engulfed in flames.
Footage of Sunday’s crash broadcast by multiple South Korean news outlets showed the plane sliding on its belly at high speed, hitting an earthen embankment and erupting in a fireball.
A plane carrying 181 people, Jeju Air Flight 7C2216, crashed at Muan International Airport in South Korea. A team of U.S investigators was being assembled to aid South Korea's probe into the crash.
Korean Air's deadliest incident was Flight 007 which was shot down by the Soviet Union on September 1, 1983. All 269 people on board were killed, including a sitting U.S. Congressman, Larry McDonald. The last fatal passenger accident was the Korean Air Flight 801 crash in 1997, which killed 229 people.
The crash damaged Asiana's reputation [66] [112] [113] [114] and that of South Korea's aviation industry following years of apparent improvements after a series of aircraft disasters in the 1980s and early 1990s. [115] Asiana shares fell by 5.8% on the first day of trading after the crash. [116]
South Korea’s acting President Choi Sang-mok ordered an emergency inspection of the country’s Boeing 737-800s, the type of plane used on the the fatal Jeju Air Flight 7C2216.