Factbox-Jeju Air crash deadliest on South Korean soil

By Hyunjoo Jin

SEOUL (Reuters) – The crash of Jeju Air 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 Traces crash in Guam that killed greater than 200.

The crash of the Boeing (NYSE:BA) 737-800 at Muan Worldwide Airport is the primary deadly accident involving the nation’s greatest finances airline, which was based in 2005. Jeju Air ranks solely behind Korean Air Traces and Asiana Airways when it comes to the variety of passengers in South Korea.

The earlier most dangerous air accident in South Korea was in 2002, when a Boeing 767-200 operated by Air China (OTC:AIRYY) crashed right into a hill close to South Korea’s southeastern port metropolis of Busan, killing 129 folks and injuring 37.

Listed here are a few of the different main aircraft crashes in South Korea or involving South Korean airways:

– In September, 1983, Korea Airways Flight 007 was shot down by a Soviet jet when it strayed into Soviet airspace over Sakhalin island, killing all 269 folks on board.

– In July 1993, a Boeing 737-500 operated by Asiana Airline (KS:020560) landed a number of kilometres (miles) wanting the runway at South Korea’s Mokpo airport in poor climate. Greater than 60 folks died.

– In August 1997, Korean Air flight 801, a Boeing 747-3B5B (747-300) operated by Korean Air, ploughed right into a hill close to Guam’s worldwide airport, killing 228 out of 254 individuals on board.

– In July 2011, an Asiana Boeing 747-400 cargo plane crashed within the sea off South Korea’s Jeju Island. This was later decided to have been brought on by a hearth within the cargo maintain. Each pilots had been killed.

– In July 2013, Asiana Airways flight 214 crashed on the San Francisco airport when the Boeing 777 jetliner’s tail struck a seawall wanting the runway, sending the plane right into a spin, resulting in the deaths of three teenage passengers from China and accidents to greater than 180 passengers out of about 300 folks on board.