South Korea Orders Emergency Safety Inspection After Plane Crash Kills 179

The crash was South Korea’s deadliest aviation disaster since 1997, when 228 people died when a Korean Airlines plane crashed in Guam.
South Korea Orders Emergency Safety Inspection After Plane Crash Kills 179
South Korean soldiers work at the wreckage of a passenger plane at Muan International Airport in Muan-gun, South Korea, on Dec. 29, 2024. Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images
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South Korean Acting President Choi Sang-mok ordered an emergency safety inspection of the country’s entire airline fleet on Dec. 30 as investigators work to determine the cause of the crash that killed 179 people on Sunday.

All 175 passengers and four crew members were killed when a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 made an emergency landing at Muan International Airport in the southwest of the country, then skidded off the runway and exploded when it hit a perimeter wall.

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