Factbox: Jeju Air crash deadliest on South Korean soil

ASIANA AIRLINES

29/12/2024 08:57

By Hyunjoo Jin
       SEOUL, Dec 29 (Reuters) - The crash of Jeju Air
 089590.KS  flight 7C2216 on Sunday marks the deadliest ever on
South Korean soil and the worst involving a South Korean airline
since a 1997 Korean Air Lines  003490.KS  crash in Guam that
killed more than 200.
    The crash of the Boeing 737-800 at Muan International
Airport is the first fatal accident involving the country's
biggest budget airline, which was founded in 2005. Jeju Air
ranks only behind Korean Air Lines  003490.KS  and Asiana
Airlines in terms of the number of passengers in South Korea.
    The previous most deadly air accident in South Korea was in 
2002, when a Boeing 767-200 operated by Air China  601111.SS 
crashed into a hill near South Korea's southeastern port city of
Busan, killing 129 people and injuring 37. 
    Here are some of the other major plane crashes in South
Korea or involving South Korean airlines:
    - In September, 1983, Korea Airlines Flight 007 was shot
down by a Soviet jet when it strayed into Soviet airspace over
Sakhalin island, killing all 269 people on board.
    - In July 1993, a Boeing 737-500 operated by Asiana Airline
landed several kilometres (miles) short of the runway at South
Korea's Mokpo airport in poor weather. More than 60 people died.
    - 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.
    - In July 2011, an Asiana Boeing 747-400 cargo aircraft
crashed in the sea off South Korea's Jeju Island. This was later
determined to have been caused by a fire in the cargo hold. Both
pilots were killed.   
    - In July 2013, Asiana Airlines flight 214 crashed at the
San Francisco airport when the Boeing 777 jetliner's tail struck
a seawall short of the runway, sending the aircraft into a spin,
leading to the deaths of three teenage passengers from China and
injuries to more than 180 passengers out of about 300 people on
board.

 (Reporting by Hyunjoo Jin; Editing by William Mallard and Raju
Gopalakrishnan)
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