The nation’s transport ministry reviewed structures near airport runways after the deadly crash of a Jeju Air flight late last month.

A dedicated government task force to support the families of the victims of last month's Jeju Air Co. plane crash has officially begun operations, the transport ministry said Monday. The task force will take over the responsibilities of an integrated support center established on Dec.

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,

A former transport ministry accident investigator said the discovery suggests all power, including backup, may have been cut, which is rare.

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea has decided to extend to April 18 the shutdown of Muan international airport where a Jeju Air passenger jet crashed last month, the transport ministry said on Saturday. The airport is the site of the Dec. 29 crash of the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 jet that killed 179 passengers on board.

The black boxes of the crashed Jeju Air plane stopped recording flight data four minutes before the aircraft crashed in the worst accident in South Korean aviation history, the Ministry of Transport reported on Saturday.

The two black boxes on the Boeing jet involved in the worst aviation disaster on South Korean soil stopped recording about four minutes before the accident, the transport ministry said on Saturday. South Korean investigators previously said the flight data and cockpit voice recorders were key to finding out the cause of last month's crash that killed 179 people.

SEOUL: South Korea's transport ministry said Saturday that the black boxes holding the flight data and cockpit voice recorders for the crashed Jeju Air flight that left 179 people dead stopped recording four minutes before the disaster. On December 29 ...

Seoul: South Korea’s transport ministry revealed Saturday that the black boxes from the Jeju Air crash that killed 179 people stopped recording four minutes before the disaster.

South Korean carrier Jeju Air has prematurely ended its charter flights from Busan to the Northern Marianas capital, Saipan. The airline was due to end its service to Saipan on 25, February. But the date was brought forward following the horrific Jeju Air plane crash in December at Muan International Airport that killed 179 people.

The flight data and cockpit voice recorders on the Jeju Air jet that crashed on Dec. 29 stopped recording about four minutes before the airliner hit a concrete structure at South