South Korea's transport ministry has extended by a week special inspections of all 101 of the Boeing 737-800 jets run by the country's airlines, as jet engine maker GE joined a probe into the deadliest aviation disaster on the country's soil.

The flight, operated by Jeju Air, was landing when it went off the runway in Muan, in the country’s southwest. Only two people survived the crash.

All 179 victims from the Jeju Air crash in South Korea have been identified, authorities said, including entire families and a 3-year-old boy.Only two people — both crew members, one male and one female,

The deadliest accident in aviation history occurred in 1977, when two Boeing 747 jumbo jets collided on a foggy runway on the Spanish island of Tenerife, killing 583 of the 644 people on board the planes. Spanish investigators blamed the captain of the KLM 747 for taking off without clearance from air traffic controllers.

South Korean officials are struggling to determine what caused a deadly plane crash that killed nearly 180 people on board, with the nation saddened, shocked and ashamed over the country’s worst aviation disaster in decades.

Grieving relatives of the victims of the South Korean plane disaster have visited the crash site to pay respects to their loved ones on New Year’s Day

Grieving relatives of people killed in a plane crash in South Korea have visited the site to pay respects to their loved ones on New Year’s Day

Data from one of the flight recorders of the Jeju Air plane, which crashed last week, has been retrieved. The other recorder will be sent to the United States for decryption, Yonhap News Agency reports.

Muan-gun, South Korea - December 30, 2024 All the 179 victims of a deadly passenger jet crash that occurred in South Korea's southwestern airport on Sunday had been identified as of 6:00 Wednesday, the South Korean government said.