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AKAL 747 in the 'old' livery Korean Air hope to be serving Australia at some point in the coming year. Delays to date in initiating services between Australia and Seoul principally have revolved around the lack of surplus capacity in both and Qantas and the farmer's unmoveable desire to make an already congested KSA its gateway destination.
Korean Air Safety Record Raises Concerns
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Korean Air Safety Record Raises Industry Concerns
In the face of unprecedented growth in Korean air travel, KAL has been placed under considerable pressure to improve its safety record. The airline- which in April began a weekly service between Sydney and Seoul – has recently been subjected to a government investigation, passenger dissatisfaction and, for the first time in twenty years, competition on Korean domestic flights. It is, however, still attempting to expand its operations.
KAL-the world’s10th largest airline- has long been plagued by its poor safety record. The shooting down of KAL 007 in 1983, for example, was only the second such incident involving a KAL airliner straying into Soviet airspace and being attacked. These incidents were serious enough, but it was the DC-1O crash at Tripoli in1989which has placed the airline under the most pressure. This crash has highlighted the policy of KAL – which after KAL 007 was renamed Korean Air- of encouraging pilots to take risks to remain on schedule.
The Tripoli crash was only the first of a series of incidents during 1989 which has placed KAL. s safety record under scrutiny. At Amsterdam’s Schipol Airport, a KAL pilot missed the runway by 20 metres while landing, hit five runway lamps and burst three tyres; an airliner bound for Tokyo was forced to turn back to Seoul’s Kimpo airport with mechanical failure; another was forced to make an emergency landing after ‘blowing’ an engine while taking off from Jakarta. An F28 on a Korean domestic flight crashed at Kimpo in December injuring more than 40 passengers, one of whom later died.
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