South Korea’s leading low-cost carrier, heavy with debt and its stock already near record lows, is now facing intense public and government scrutiny.

South Korea was set Friday to move the tail section of the Jeju Air plane that crashed last week, killing 179 people in the worst aviation disaster on its soil, officials said.The investigation is headed by South Korean air safety officials,

The Jeju Air crash in South Korea is an outlier in a country considered to be a gold standard for airline safety.

South Korean police raided the offices of Jeju Air and the operator of Muan International Airport Thursday, as the investigation into the deadly Dec. 29 plane crash that killed 179 people ramped up.

By Hyunjoo Jin and Hyunsu Yim SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean police said on Thursday they had raided Jeju Air and the operator of Muan International Airport as part of their investigation into Sunday's crash that killed 179 people in the worst aviation disaster on the country's soil.

A YouTube video, believed to show the final moments before the disastrous Jeju Air crash that killed 179 people on December 29, has circulated widely online according to local media.

A South Korean Jeju Air passenger jet crashed on landing at Muan International Airport on Sunday, killing 179 people in the country's deadliest air disaster.

Investigators on Saturday compiled the complete transcript from the cockpit voice recorder recovered from the wreckage of the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800.

South Korea will send one of the retrieved black boxes of the crashed Jeju Air flight, in which 179 of 181 people onboard were killed, to the United States for analysis.“The damaged flight data recorder has been deemed unrecoverable for data extraction domestically.

While almost all major economies should see monetary easing during the coming year, the pace is likely to slow.

SOUTH Korean authorities have extended the closure of a southwestern airport where a Jeju Air plane crashed and killed 179 people onboard, the land ministry said on Monday. Read more at The Business Times.