“The investigation team has imposed a travel ban on two people, including Jeju Air CEO Kim E-bae,” said police in South Jeolla Province, where the airport is located. of Muan. Searches, ordered for “professional negligence leading to death”, target Muan airport, the headquarters of Jeju Air in Seoul and an office of the regional aviation authority, police said in a statement.
Jeju Air Flight 2216, coming from the Thai capital Bangkok, crashed on Sunday morning after landing on its belly and hitting a concrete wall at the end of the airport’s runway.
Of the 181 people on board, only two crew members survived, making the accident the worst aviation disaster in history on Korean soil.
Korean and American investigators recovered the two black boxes from the device. The damaged flight data recorder will be analyzed in the United States, while data from the cockpit voice recorder has already been extracted.
The Korean authorities have also ordered the inspection of the 101 Boeing 737-800s operated by national airlines, with particular emphasis on the landing gears.
A collision between the plane and birds is also considered as a possible cause of the accident.
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