Transportation
Two Plane Crashes Lead to Deadliest Year in Skies Since 2018
- Onboard deaths in 2024 jump to 318 after recent crashes
- South Korean investigators probing cause of Jeju Air crash
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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.
Fatalities onboard passenger aircraft jumped to 318 this year with the two recent accidents, 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.