The Latest Breaking News from South Korea

South Korea to inspect Boeing 737-800 planes post-crash, focusing on aviation safety enhancements and investigating possible causes of the tragic incident.

South Korean officials are looking for the cause of a passenger jet crash that killed 179 people, in one of the deadliest disasters in the country’s aviation history

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Cries of anguish echoed through a lounge at Muan International Airport in South Korea on Monday as families waited for news of relatives killed in the weekend's Jeju Air plane crash.

US air safety officials and staff from the beleaguered aircraft maker Boeing were arriving to join investigators probing the worst air disaster on South Korean soil, which officials initially blamed on a collision with birds.

Even as experts remain puzzled by Jeju Air crash, they are sceptical a bird strike was sole cause of fatal disaster

Experts allege a 'near-criminal' error contributed to the deaths of 179 passengers in the fatal plane crash in South Korea.

Authorities announce investigation as shocked citizens enter second day of official mourning

Families of the dead and missing struggle to come to terms with disaster that struck Jeju Air plane as it was coming in to land at Muan airport

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

Bird strikes are a common hazard for commercial flights but only rarely cause serious accidents, experts say.