Jeju Air CEO banned from leaving South Korea after fatal crash: police
The Hindu
Jeju Air CEO banned from leaving South Korea after fatal plane crash, police raid airline offices.
The chief executive of South Korean airline Jeju Air has been banned from leaving the country, police said on Thursday (January 2, 2025), after one of the company's planes crashed last week killing 179.
"The... investigation team imposed a travel ban on two individuals, including Jeju Air CEO Kim E-bae," said police in South Jeolla Province, where the crash in Muan city happened.
South Korean police on Thursday (January 2, 2025) raided the offices of Jeju Air and the operator of Muan International Airport as part of the probe into the fatal crash of a Boeing 737-800 plane that killed 179 people.
The flight was carrying 181 people from Thailand to South Korea on Sunday (December 29, 2024) when it issued a mayday call and belly-landed before slamming into a barrier, killing everyone aboard except two flight attendants pulled from the burning wreckage.
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