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Air Busan jet catches fire in Korea
Published on 28/01/2025
» SEOUL - An Air Busan plane caught fire at Gimhae International Airport in Busan in South Korea on Tuesday and all 169 passengers and seven crew evacuated without casualties, the Yonhap news agency reported.
First report on Jeju Air crash due Monday
Published on 25/01/2025
» SEOUL - South Korea on Monday will release a preliminary report on last month’s Jeju Air plane crash that killed 179 people, the deadliest air disaster on the country’s soil, the transport ministry said on Saturday.
South Korea to change airport design after deadly Jeju air crash
Reuters, Published on 22/01/2025
» SEOUL — South Korea will extend runway safety areas and redesign infrastructure after the crash of a Jeju Air Co flight last month that killed almost everyone on board, sparking criticism that the design of the airport might have exacerbated the accident.
Bird feathers, blood found in both engines of crashed jet in South Korea, source says
Published on 17/01/2025
» Seoul - Investigators found bird feathers and blood in both engines of the Jeju Air jet that crashed in South Korea last month, killing 179 people, a person familiar with the probe told Reuters on Friday.
South Korea says Jeju Air jet black boxes stopped recording before crash
AFP, Published on 11/01/2025
» SEOUL — The black boxes holding the flight data and cockpit voice recorders for the crashed Jeju Air flight that left 179 people dead stopped recording four minutes before the disaster, South Korea's transport ministry said on Saturday.
South Korea fails in unprecedented attempt to arrest president
Bloomberg News, Published on 03/01/2025
» SEOUL — South Korean anti-corruption investigators failed to arrest impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol after facing resistance from his security team and about a thousand protesters gathered outside his residence.
Korean police raid airport where Jeju Air jet crashed
AFP, Published on 02/01/2025
» SEOUL - South Korean police on Thursday raided Muan airport and the Jeju Air office Thursday morning over the crash involving a Boeing 737-800 that killed 179 people.
South Korea to send Jeju Air crash black box to US
AFP, Published on 01/01/2025
» SEOUL - 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.
S. Korea starts releasing Jeju Air crash victims to families
AFP, Published on 31/12/2024
» MUAN (SOUTH KOREA) - South Korean authorities began releasing the bodies of plane crash victims to families Tuesday, as investigators raced to determine why the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 crash landed and burst into flames.
Data recorder on crashed Korean plane missing key component
Bloomberg News, Published on 31/12/2024
» SEOUL -- A device that could shed light on South Korea’s deadliest plane crash is missing a critical component, authorities have revealed, potentially delaying the investigation into the cause of the accident that killed 179 people.