SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean authorities investigating the tragic Jeju Air crash last month released a preliminary accident report Monday, revealing that the aircraft’s black box stopped recording approximately 2 kilometers before the plane approached the runway. It is the first report as part of the ongoing investigation into the deadly crash [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to strengthen its oversight of low-cost carriers (LCCs) and impose strict penalties on airlines failing to meet enhanced operational safety standards, the government said Thursday, following last month’s Jeju Air crash. In a meeting with CEOs of nine domestic LCCs, including Jeju Air, T’way Air, Eastar Jet [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A dedicated government task force to support the families of the victims of last month’s Jeju Air Co. plane crash has officially begun operations, the transport ministry said Monday. The task force will take over the responsibilities of an integrated support center established on Dec. 29, when a Jeju Air [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The government said Friday it will provide an initial allowance of 3 million won (US$2,057) to the families of the Jeju Air plane crash victims. Acting Interior Minister Ko Ki-dong said during a meeting of the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters that the “emergency living expense allowance” will [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States have begun an analysis of the crashed Jeju Air plane’s flight data recorder (FDR), and their joint investigation team is speeding up a probe of key components of the wreckage, including engines and main wings, at the crash site, a top government official [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The government is set to complete handing over all 179 bodies of the deadly Jeju Air plane crash victims to their families and relatives Monday, acting Interior Minister Ko Ki-dong said. Ko made the remark at a government response meeting, saying that search and recovery efforts at the crash [...]
GWANGJU, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Funerals for five more victims of the fatal Jeju Air plane crash were held in the southwestern city of Gwangju and nearby areas on Friday, after the first four of the 179 victims killed in Sunday’s disaster were laid to rest in services the previous day. Grieving bereaved families [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Acting President Choi Sang-mok directed the government on Thursday to expedite the provision of emergency living expenses to the families of victims of the tragic plane crash that claimed 179 lives. Choi’s order comes after the Jeju Air plane, carrying 181 people, belly-landed and exploded at an airport in [...]
GWANGJU, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The first funeral for the victims of the fatal Jeju Air plane crash was held Thursday, five days after the disaster at Muan International Airport in southwestern South Korea claimed the lives of 179 people. The first funeral for the victim, whose identity was withheld, occurred at a funeral [...]
MUAN, South Korea, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Police on Thursday raided Muan International Airport, the office of Jeju Air and other locations over the airline’s deadly crash that killed 179 people. The Jeonnam Provincial Police conducted search and seizure operations into the airport in southwest South Korea, the Seoul office of Jeju Air and [...]