The pilots of a Korean Air Boeing 747 are desperately searching for the runway, on their final approach to Guam, in the West ...

Smoke billows from the wreckage of Korean Air-flight 801 taken hours after the Aug. 6, 1997, pre-dawn crash on Nimitz Hill. PDN file photo ...

Air Force Lt. Gen. David Iverson, deputy commander of U.S. Forces Korea, left, stands alongside outgoing 51st Fighter Wing commander Col. William McKibban, center, and incoming commander Col. Ryan Ley ...

Flight 7C2216, a 15-year-old Boeing 737-800 operated by the Korean budget airline Jeju Air, crashed while landing at Muan International Airport just after 9 a.m. local time on Sunday.

Asia Pacific Airlines pilot Capt. Joe San Agustin recalls the the carnage he saw when he came upon the scene, almost 25 years ago, where Korean Air Flight 801 crashed into a hillside near Nimitz ...

The burden is too much, the information not enough. Her 8-year-old niece, Tiffany Kang, was on Korean Air Flight 801. So was her youngest sister, Meejin Park Lee. And nine of her sister’s in-laws.

Korean Air Flight 801 crashes in Guam (1997) Just 20 years ago, Koreain Air Flight 801 crashed into Nimitz Hill, Guam, killing 228 of the 254 people on board.

WRECKAGE: The Korean Air Flight 801 wreckage is shown in the National Transportation Safety Board report of the accident on Aug. 6, 1997, on a remote area on Nimitz Hill, Guam.

On Aug. 6, 1997, a Boeing 747-300 crashed into high terrain at Nimitz Hill, approximately 3 miles southwest of its destination en route to land at A.B. Won Pat International Airport. The flight ...