Jeju Air’s first fatal crash also marked the worst civil air accident ever in South Korea. - AP
NEW YORK: Commercial aviation has suffered its deadliest year since 2018 after the Jeju Air Co disaster in South Korea and last week’s downing of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane.
Onboard passenger plane fatalities this year jumped to 318 with the two recent crashes, data compiled by Cirium shows. That’s by far the highest death toll since more than 500 people died in 2018, a year marked by the first of two Boeing Co. 737 Max crashes.
