South Korea investigates ‘wall barrier’ in Jeju Air crash

Agence France Presse 01/01/2025

South Korean authorities said Tuesday they were investigating the role of a wall or concrete barrier at the end of Muan airport runway in the country’s worst air disaster, which killed 179 people as a Jeju Air…

Honeymoons, first foreign trips end in tragic plane crash

The Korea Herald/Asia News Network 12/31/2024

Many of the 175 passengers that passed away in the Jeju Air flight 7C 2216 crash on Sunday had been families on year-end trips, some of whom were children traveling overseas for the first time in their…

What caused South Korea’s most deadly plane crash

Agence France Presse 12/31/2024

The emergency landing of Jeju Air Flight 2216 looked highly skilled, experts say, but all except two of the 181 people on board were killed when the Boeing 737-800 hit a wall and burst into flames. As…

Another crisis: Plane crash tests South Korea’s acting president

The Korea Herald/Asia News Network 12/30/2024

The administration of acting President Choi Sang-mok has been put to the test as it grapples with a deadly plane crash at an airport in the southwestern county of Muan, South Jeolla Province, amid the political turmoil…

Jeju Air plane crash in South Korea: What we know about it

Agence France Presse 12/30/2024

SEOUL, South Korea — A Jeju Air plane flying from Bangkok to South Korea with 181 people on board crashed on landing Sunday, killing 179 with just two people plucked alive from the wreckage. Here’s what we…

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