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Korean Air Flight 2708 was a scheduled international flight that on 27 May 2016, the Boeing 777-300 operating the flight [1] from Haneda Airport in Tokyo to Seoul's Gimpo International Airport, was accelerating for take off when its left engine suffered an uncontained failure and a substantial fire ensued. The crew aborted the take-off, and ...
The Boeing 777-28EER involved, [a] MSN 29171, registered as HL7742, [4] was powered by two Pratt and Whitney PW4090 engines. [5] [6] The aircraft was manufactured in 2006 and was delivered to Asiana Airlines on March 7, 2006. [7] At the time of the accident, the plane had accumulated 37,120 flight hours and 5,388 takeoff-and-landing cycles. [1 ...
- In August 1997, Korean Air flight 801, a Boeing 747-3B5B (747-300) operated by Korean Air, ploughed into a hill near Guam's international airport, killing 228 out of 254 persons on board.
It was designed in cooperation between Korean Air and Boeing. In the 1990s, Korean Air became the first airline to use the new McDonnell Douglas MD-11 to supplement its new fleet of Boeing 747-400 aircraft; however, the MD-11 did not meet the airline's performance requirements and they were eventually converted to freighters. Some older 747 ...
On 16 November 2020, the Government of the Republic of Korea announced a policy of merging Asiana Airlines with Korean Air, which would acquire a 30.77% stake in Asiana from Korea Development Bank. [29] The Korean state-run bank would invest 800 billion won (US$600 million) to Hanjin KAL, the holding company of Korean Air, to fund the merger. [29]
Pages in category "Accidents and incidents involving the Boeing 777" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. ... Korean Air Flight 2708; M.
The accident is the deadliest aviation disaster involving a South Korean airliner since the 1997 crash of Korean Air Flight 801 in Guam and became the deadliest aviation accident on South Korean soil, surpassing the 2002 crash of Air China Flight 129 that killed 129 people. [2] This was the first fatal accident in Jeju Air's 19-year history. [3]