Factbox-Jeju Air crash deadliest on South Korean soil Through Reuters

Through 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:) 737-800 at Muan World Airport is the primary deadly coincidence involving the rustic’s largest finances airline, which used to be based in 2005. Jeju Air ranks simplest in the back of Korean Air Traces and Asiana Airways when it comes to the selection of passengers in South Korea.

The former most threatening air coincidence in South Korea used to be in 2002, when a Boeing 767-200 operated by way of Air China (OTC:) crashed right into a hill close to South Korea’s southeastern port town of Busan, killing 129 folks and injuring 37.

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

– In September, 1983, Korea Airways Flight 007 used to be shot down by way of 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 way of Asiana Airline (KS:) landed a number of kilometres (miles) wanting the runway at South Korea’s Mokpo airport in deficient climate. Greater than 60 folks died.

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

– In July 2011, an Asiana Boeing 747-400 shipment plane crashed within the sea off South Korea’s Jeju Island. This used to be later made up our minds to had been led to by way of a fireplace within the shipment dangle. 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 3 teenage passengers from China and accidents to greater than 180 passengers out of about 300 folks on board.