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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]
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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 crash was the country’s deadliest since 1997, when a Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 crashed in the Guam jungle, with the loss of 228 lives. It is not yet clear what caused it, with the ...
Investigation underway. Investigators are working to pinpoint what may have caused the crash of Jeju Air flight 7C 2216, which was flying from Bangkok to Muan.
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 last crew fatalities were in the crash ...
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.. All 175 ...
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