SEOUL - Founded in 1988, Asiana Airlines has a very good safety record with Saturday's crash in San Francisco being its first fatal passenger jet accident in 20 years.

In the Seoul-based firm's worst-ever accident, a Boeing 737 crashed into a mountain in the southwest of South Korea in June 1993, killing 68 people.

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