South Korea’s government has ordered budget airlines to reduce flight hours and hire more maintenance workers as it tightens safety measures after last month’s deadly Jeju Air Co. crash.

By Jin Yu Young Reporting from Seoul South Korea has told its low-cost carriers to prioritize safety over profit after the deadly crash of a Jeju Air plane in South Korea last month, in an effort ...

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea will remove a concrete structure at an airport runway that may have been involved in a devastating plane crash that killed all but two of the 181 people on board ...

Languages: English. The former president of the South Korean company which ran the airport where a plane crash killed 179 people has been found dead. Police have ruled the death of Son Chang-wan ...

The diktat came on the same day when South Korea recorded its worst domestic aviation disaster with the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 crash landing at Muan airport and ramming into a concrete embankment.

The embankment, intended to shield the antenna array at the end of the runway, has been under scrutiny since the crash. The South Korean Transport Ministry announced on Wednesday that the concrete ...

A Korean drinks brand has suffered an angry backlash after a shop manager heartlessly instructed employees to inform their boss ahead of their families in the event of a plane crash. The row ...

Jan. 14, 2025 South Korea plans to alter structures near runways at several airports after last month’s Jeju Air crash, when a plane that landed on its belly skidded into a concrete wall before ...

The black boxes of the passenger jetliner that crashed in South Korea last month killing 179 people stopped recording about four minutes before the crash, South Korean officials said Saturday.

concluded that both the flight data and cockpit voice recorders stopped working about four minutes before the crash, the South Korean Transportation Ministry said. The Boeing 737-800 operated by ...

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Jan. 11 (UPI) --The two flight recorders on board a South Korean airliner stopped working before the jet crashed during an emergency landing and subsequent crash that killed 179 of the 181 people ...