South Korean police on Thursday, January 2, raided Jeju Air's regional aviation office, the office is in Seoul, and the crash site as a part of the ongoing investigation, reported the news agency AFP.
SEOUL, South Korea — A jetliner skidded off a runway, slammed into a concrete fence and burst into flames Sunday in South Korea after its landing gear apparently failed to deploy. All but two of the 181 people on board were killed in one of the country’s worst aviation disasters, officials said.
A dog named Pudding has been faithfully waiting for its family, unaware that they will never return home after they were killed in South Korea’s worst air disaster. Among the 179 victims of the Jeju Air Flight 112 catastrophe on Sunday were all nine members of its family.
Investigators from the NTSB and Boeing were expected to join the investigation into South Korea's deadliest air crash.
U.S. investigators are helping South Korea investigate the plane crash on Sunday that killed 179 people on board a plane from Thailand. The team of U.S. investigators will include the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB),
Acting South Korean President Choi Sang-mok has told emergency responders to use "all available" resources to respond to the crash.
The Muan crash is one of the deadliest disasters in South Korea’s aviation history. The last time South Korea suffered a large-scale air disaster was in 1997, when a Korean Airline plane crashed in Guam, killing 228 people on board. In 2013, an Asiana Airlines plane crash-landed in San Francisco, killing three and injuring approximately 200.
South Korean construction companies have surpassed $1tn in accumulated overseas contracts, the Korea Bizwire reported, citing a domestic transport ministry statement. The achievement comes nearly six decades after Hyundai Engineering & Construction secured its first international contract,
Five South Korean co-workers, celebrating their promotions with a holiday to Thailand, perished in a tragic crash of Jeju Air flight 7C2216. The disaster left 179 dead, marking the deadliest air crash on South Korean soil.
Families wept and wailed as officials read off the names of the victims who died on Sunday, Dec. 29 at Muan International Airport, where the crash occurred, according to CNN and NBC News. Only two people, a pair of flight attendants, are said to have survived the crash, which was flying in from Bangkok, Thailand.
Just two survivors were rescued from the wreckage of the passenger plane, which had been returning from Thailand.