South Korea said it planned to improve the structures housing the antennas that guide landings at its airports this year after December's fatal crash of a Jeju Air plane, which skidded off the runway and burst into flames after hitting such a structure.

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.

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: 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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 Korea's Muan airport,

Investigators probing the Jeju Air crash that killed 179 people last month have found feathers in both engines, according to South Korean media reports, with a bird strike being examined as one possible cause.

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.

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.