The former president of the company that operates the South Korean airport where a Jeju Air jet crash-landed last month has been found dead in his home, the police said on Wednesday.

       Son Chang-wan, who was the president of Korea Airports Corporation from 2018 to 2022, was found in his residence in Gunpo, a city about 14 miles south of Seoul, on Tuesday evening. The police said there was no evidence of murder or intrusion into his home and called his death an apparent suicide.

       Mr. Son was in office when a renovation of the Muan International Airport, the site of the Dec. 29 Jeju Air disaster in which 179 people were killed, began in 2020. But he was not a subject of an investigation into the crash being conducted by the Jeonnam Provincial Police, according to an agency spokesperson.

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