GOVERNMENT Answer
South Korea was at the height of a political problems that began when Yoon Suk Yeol, the then-president, declared martial law on December 3, weeks before being impeached.
On his third time in business, acting president Choi Sang-mok met with cabinet members for an emergency meeting on Sunday and visited the collapse site.
Aerospace SAFETY RECORD
The accident was the first fatal incident for Jeju Air, and South Korea’s aircraft industry has a strong safety record.
On Aug 12, 2007, powerful winds caused a Jeju Air-operated Bombardier Q400 carrying 74 people to wander off the tarmac at another southwestern aircraft, Busan-Gimhae. A few people were injured.
Before Sunday, the deadliest helicopter crash on North Korean land took place on Apr 15, 2002, when an Air China Boeing 767 flying from Beijing hit a hill near Busan-Gimhae, resulting in 129 incidents.
On July 6, 2013, in San Francisco, California, a North Korean aircraft crashed to death. Asiana Airlines ‘ Boeing 777 plane missed its getting, leaving three dead and 182 damage.
The most notorious accident to strike a North Korean flight occurred on September 1, 1983 when a Russian fighter jet shot down a Boeing 747, which Moscow claimed was mistaken for a spy planes.
All 23 staff and 246 people aboard the Korean Air journey- a New York-to-Seoul journey via Anchorage, Alaska- were killed.