Two people, both flight attendants, are the only survivors of the crash and are being treated at South Korean hospitals.
The flight was carrying 181 passengers and crew when it belly-landed before slamming into a barrier, killing all aboard except two flight attendants.
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.
The Jeju Air crash in South Korea is an outlier in a country considered to be a gold standard for airline safety.
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.
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.
Jeju Air’s passenger plane smashed into a concrete wall after an emergency landing at Muan international airport in South Korea
A Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 skidded down the runway and crashed in a fireball in South Korea, and investigators are just beginning the process of figuring out why.
Investigators of the Jeju Air crash are close to completing the conversion of the cockpit voice recorder from audio to text in the hope it may provide more clues as to what caused the aviation disaster.
South Korean investigators said Saturday they were close to finalising the transcript of the cockpit voice recorder from a fatal plane crash that left 179 people dead last week. "The transcript of the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) is expected to be completed today,
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