{"id":75708,"date":"2025-12-22T15:33:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T06:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/22\/jeju-air-crash-independent-inquiry-south-korea"},"modified":"2025-12-22T15:33:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T06:33:23","slug":"jeju-air-crash-south-korea-sets-up-independent-inquiry-into-disaster-that-killed-179-amid-delays-and-acrimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75708","title":{"rendered":"Jeju Air crash: South Korea sets up independent inquiry into disaster that killed 179 amid delays and acrimony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MPs vote to investigate crash amid accusations from victims\u2019 relatives of cover-ups and delays<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s parliament <a href=\"https:\/\/en.yna.co.kr\/view\/AEN20251222004900315?section=national\/politics\">has launched<\/a> an independent inquiry into the deadliest air disaster on its soil amid accusations of investigation delays and cover-ups of last year\u2019s Jeju Air crash.<\/p>\n<p>On 29 December 2024 all but two of the 181 people onboard a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 died when it crashed at Muan international airport, 288km south of Seoul, after reporting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/27\/bird-remains-engines-jeju-air-crash-report-south-korea\">bird strike<\/a> during landing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/22\/jeju-air-crash-independent-inquiry-south-korea\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MPs vote to investigate crash amid accusations from victims\u2019 relatives of cover-ups and delaysSouth Korea\u2019s parliament has launched an independent inquiry into the deadliest air disaster on its soil amid accusations of investigation delays and cover-up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2929,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,222,3215],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea","category-south-korea-plane-crash"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2929"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75709,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75708\/revisions\/75709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}