Aviation tragedy: Emergency response personnel work at the site where a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 aircraft crashed at Muan International Airport, southwest of Seoul on Jan 4. The plane was carrying 181 people from Thailand to South Korea. — AFP
IF you yearn for a future where you can travel from place to place in safety and comfort, some of the major transport events of 2024 might feel like a setback. Don’t give up hope.
The crash of Jeju Air Co flight 2216 on Dec 29, killing all but two of the 181 on board, and the death of 38 four days earlier when Azerbaijan Airlines flight 8243 was apparently being erroneously targeted by Russian anti-aircraft weapons, helped give the year the worst death toll in commercial aviation since 2018.
