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Korean Air's deadliest incident was Flight 007 which was shot down by the Soviet Union on September 1, 1983. All 269 people on board were killed, including a sitting U.S. Congressman, Larry McDonald. The last fatal passenger accident was the Korean Air Flight 801 crash in 1997, which killed 229 people. The last crew fatalities were in the crash ...
Moments before the crash of Jeju Air flight 2216, a passenger aboard texted a friend that the Boeing 737-800 aircraft had struck a bird. ... the Boeing 737-800 has a very strong safety record ...
Anxious airline flyers may well remember 2024 as the year their worst fears about the safety of air travel felt confirmed, as a series of unprecedented, and in some cases fatal, airplane incidents ...
South Korea's acting President Choi Sang-mok on Monday ordered an emergency safety inspection of the country's entire airline operation as investigators worked to identify victims and find out ...
The Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Board (ARAIB, Korean: 항공·철도사고조사위원회) is an agency of the South Korean government that investigates aviation and railway accidents, subservient to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) and headquartered in Sejong City. The ARAIB opened on July 10, 2006.
In 1999, Delta Air Lines suspended its code-sharing relationship with Korean Air explicitly citing its poor safety record following the fatal crash of Korean Air Cargo Flight 6316. It marked the first time safety was explicitly cited as the reason for stopping a major code-sharing alliance by an airline. [25]
The incident resulted in the highest number of fatalities from a plane crash on South Korean soil in the country’s history, which has a strong flight safety record over the last two decades.
Korean airline crash may refer to: Jeju Air Flight 2216, 2024, which crashed in South Korea on arrival from Thailand; Asiana Airlines Flight 214, 2013, from Incheon, South Korea, that crashed on arrival at San Francisco, California; Asiana Airlines Flight 991 (OZ991, AAR991), 2011, a cargo flight which crashed into the Korea Strait