South Korea’s worst aviation disaster in decades additionally was the 12 months’s deadliest aircraft crash worldwide, and time is operating out on 2024. A Boeing 737-800 aircraft operated by South Korean price range airline Jeju Air got here down with its entrance touchdown gear closed and struck a concrete fence on Sunday (Dec 29) at Muan Worldwide Airport in southern South Korea, killing 179 people.
The deadliest accident in aviation historical past 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 individuals on board the planes. Spanish investigators blamed the captain of the KLM 747 for taking off with out clearance from air visitors controllers.
In an act of terrorism, almost 3,000 individuals died when Al-Qaeda hijackers crashed 4 jetliners into the dual towers of the World Commerce Middle in New York, the Pentagon outdoors Washington, DC, and a subject in southwest Pennsylvania on Sep 11, 2001.
These are among the important aviation accidents that occurred in 2024:
Jan 2: A big passenger aircraft and a Japanese coast guard aircraft collided on a Tokyo runway. All 5 individuals within the coast guard aircraft died, however all 379 on the Japan Airways escaped earlier than the jet became engulfed in flames.
