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Korean Air Flight 480 in-flight disturbance incident

20 Dec 2016 · Inside the Korean Air aircraft

Boeing 737 · Drinking

From Noi Bai International Airport to Incheon International Airport

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Event

Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
Occurrence
Event fatalities
Unknown
Ground fatalities
Unknown
Occupants
Unknown
Survivors
132
InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
Unknown
OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
Airline

Boeing 737

Aircraft type
Boeing 737
Category
Airplane · from aircraft type
RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
Unknown
Operator
Korean Air
Onboard fatalities
Unknown
Route
From Noi Bai International AirportTo Incheon International Airport

Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.

From the Wikipedia article

The Korean Air Flight 480 in-flight disturbance incident (大韓航空480便機內亂動事件) was an incident on 20 December 2016 in which Lim Beom-jun, the son of the president of Dujeong Mulsan, caused a disturbance aboard a Korean Air passenger aircraft that had taken off from Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, Vietnam, and was heading to Incheon International Airport

Translated into English with AI assistance from the Korean Wikipedia article “대한항공 480편 기내 난동 사건” (revision 41974840, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article

Sources

Korean Wikipedia article: 대한항공 480편 기내 난동 사건
Article
대한항공 480편 기내 난동 사건
Translation
Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
Revision
41974840 · 2026-06-22 · retrieved 2026-09-19
Wikidata
Q65242357
Licence
Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
Record
ko Wikipedia article "대한항공 480편 기내 난동 사건" (page 2519014, revision 41974840), translated into English with AI assistance
Date
Wikipedia infobox: date
Place and country
Wikipedia infobox: site
Map position
none
Aircraft, operator and route
Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
Operation
flight number in the article title
Fatalities
not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
Ground fatalities
not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
Summary
Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
  • Wikipedia · Facts from the Korean Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.