MUAN, South Korea -- South Korea and the U.S. launched a joint investigation on Tuesday into the Jeju Air plane crash with the goal of determining what caused the accident that killed 179 people and left only two survivors.
South Korea's transport ministry said that authorities deployed a total of 19 investigators -- 11 South Koreans and eight Americans -- to Muan International Airport to examine what led to one of the East Asian country's deadliest aviation accidents. The team includes three U.S. National Transportation Safety Board investigators and four officials from Boeing, the manufacturer of the 737-800 aircraft destroyed in the crash.
