South Korean police raided Muan airport in the southwest of the country on Thursday, where the crash of a Jeju Air plane killed 179 people on Sunday.
“In relation to the plane accident that occurred on December 29, a search and seizure operation has been carried out since 9 a.m. (1 a.m. in Switzerland) on January 2 in three locations,” including Muan airport, the office of the Jeju Air company in Seoul as well as an office of the regional aviation sector authority in Muan, police said in a statement sent to AFP.
“The police intend to quickly and rigorously determine the cause and responsibility for this accident in accordance with the law,” added the same source.
On Sunday morning, budget airline Jeju Air Flight 2216, coming from Bangkok, landed on its belly at Muan Airport and slammed into a concrete wall at the end of the runway, folding in two and catching fire. .
Only two of the 181 people on board the plane – a hostess and a steward – survived the accident, the worst air disaster in history to occur on South Korean soil.
-South Korean and American investigators are working at the crash site, where the two black boxes of the Boeing 737-800 were found.
The damaged flight data recorder must be analyzed in the United States, Vice Minister of Aviation Joo Jong-wan announced on Wednesday. The second black box, which contains the cockpit conversations, gave rise to a first data extraction.
All South Korean airlines’ Boeing 737-800s – 101 aircraft from six carriers, according to authorities – are also subject to inspections mainly targeting the landing gears, which appear to have malfunctioned on the crashed plane, reported the general director in charge of aviation security policy, Yoo Kyeong-soo.
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