The former president of the company that operates the South Korean airport where a Jeju Air jet crash-landed last month has been found dead in his home, the police said on Wednesday. Son Chang-wan, who was the president of Korea Airports Corporation from 2018 to 2022, was found in his residence in Gunpo, a city […]

It was a tense conversation between two authoritarian leaders accustomed to getting their way. President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia was offering explanations for the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash that had killed 38 people days earlier. Perhaps it was a flock of birds, Mr. Putin said, or an exploding gas canister. Maybe a Ukrainian drone. […]

South Korea plans to alter structures near runways at several airports after last month’s Jeju Air crash, when a plane that landed on its belly skidded into a concrete wall before exploding into a fireball. At seven of South Korea’s 14 domestic and international airports, structures that house antennas and other devices that help pilots […]

The flight recorder of the Jeju Air passenger jet that crashed last month, killing ​179 people, stopped recording for​ its last four minutes, South Korean officials said on Saturday, a significant setback for investigators. Data extracted from the so-called black box, consisting of the ​cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder, is generally crucial […]

When Jeju Air’s status as South Korea’s biggest low-cost carrier seemed under threat from the merger of the country’s two biggest airlines last year, the company’s chief executive assured employees that it would “actively respond,” possibly by acquiring smaller rivals. Now, a week after a crash that killed 179 people on Dec. 29, Jeju Air’s […]