Korean Air says ‘strictly manages’ radiation exposure after crew death ruling

SEOUL - Korean Air said Tuesday it “strictly manages” cosmic radiation exposure for its flight crew, after a landmark decision ruled an air steward’s cancer death was akin to an industrial accident.

The attendant, identified by his surname Song, spent nearly 1,022 hours on board a plane each year with nearly half of his flights covering long-haul routes to the Americas and Europe. The company limits the radiation exposure to “less than 6 millisievert a year”, it said, which is “a lot stricter than the legal maximum radiation exposure standard of up to 50mSv a year”.

The ruling is the first time that an official labour body in South Korea has recognised the correlation between cosmic radiation and cancer for flight attendants as an industrial death.

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