South Korea’s leading low-cost carrier, heavy with debt and its stock already near record lows, is now facing intense public and government scrutiny.

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

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.

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 ...

CEO Kim moved to AIR SEOUL during the regular executive reshuffle of Hanjin Group on the 15th. He joined Korean Air in 1991 and has served in various roles including passenger marketing, passenger route sales, and as branch manager in Fukuoka, Osaka, and Jeju.

A pet dog named Pudding was on the South Korea-bound flight that crashed claiming 179 lives. Identified as Pudding, the doggo was reportedly left behind in the village when its 80-year-old passenger and his eight other family members took the flight.

As investigators look into what caused Jeju Air Flight 7C2216 to crash, the airline has come under intense government and public scrutiny for how it operates. Some of its operational practices are being challenged, including how it flew its planes more frequently than competitors and how it outsourced its maintenance overseas.

SEOUL (Reuters) -The two black boxes on the ... It happened about four minutes after the pilot of the airliner operated by Jeju Air reported a bird strike. Authorities investigating the crash ...