A South Korean Jeju Air passenger jet crashed on landing at Muan International Airport on Sunday, killing 179 people in the country's deadliest air disaster.

South Korea’s acting President Choi Sang-mok on Monday ordered the transport ministry to carry out an emergency safety inspection of the country’s airline operation system. Jeju Air CEO Kim E-bae neither confirmed nor denied reports that a bird strike was the cause of the crash.

By Daisuke Wakabayashi Reporting from Seoul When Jeju Air’s status as South Korea’s biggest low-cost carrier seemed under threat from the merger of the country’s two biggest airlines last ye ...

Jeju Air 7C2216, which departed the Thai capital of Bangkok for Muan in southwestern South Korea, belly-landed and overshot the regional airport’s runway, exploding into flames after hitting an ...

South Korean investigators said Friday they expected to find more human remains as they began lifting the wreckage of the Jeju Air jet that crashed on landing last weekend killing all but two of the 181 passengers and crew aboard.

Authorities are still scrambling to pinpoint the exact reason why the aircraft – Jeju Air Flight 2216 from Thailand to South Korea – malfunctioned while landing on Sunday, leading it to crash ...

South Korean investigators probing a Jeju Air crash which killed 179 people in the worst aviation disaster on its soil said Wednesday they will send one of the retrieved black boxes to the United States for analysis.

A pilot with seven years of experience at South Korea’s Muan International Airport ... 04:47 Families of Jeju Air crash victims ask South Korean government to recover bodies faster Families ...

In fact, only Middle Eastern LCC Air Arabia bested Jeju's utilization rate last year at 12.5 daily hours. Data from aviation analytics firm Cirium shows that Jeju was flying its planes an average of 11.6 hours per day—this is considerably higher than the likes of Ryanair (9.3 hours), AirAsia (9 hours), and VietJet (10 hours).

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's security chief said on Friday the impeached leader has been unfairly treated.

Before it suffered the deadliest crash in South Korea's history, budget airline Jeju Air was moving fast: racking up record passenger numbers and flying its aircraft more than domestic rivals and many of its global peers,