South Korean police raid airport, Jeju Air workplaces after lethal crash – INA NEWS

Police in South Korea have raided Muan worldwide airport, the workplaces of Jeju Air and a regional aviation physique amid investigations into the deadliest-ever air catastrophe on South Korean soil.

The Jeonnam Provincial Police Company carried out the “search and seizure operation” on the three places on Thursday morning, officers stated.

The raids come as aviation authorities, together with officers from the US, are probing the reason for the lethal crash of Jeju Air Flight 2216 on Sunday, which killed 179 of 181 folks on board.

South Korean authorities stated on Wednesday that they extracted the preliminary information from one of many Boeing 737-800’s two black bins, with the opposite to be despatched to the US for evaluation resulting from injury it suffered within the crash.

South Korean officers have launched an inspection of all Boeing 737-800 plane in operation in addition to a wider probe of the nation’s whole airline operations.

South Korean performing president, Choi Sang-mok, stated on Thursday that instant motion should be taken if the inspections revealed any issues with the plane mannequin.

“As there’s nice public concern about the identical plane mannequin concerned within the accident, the transport ministry and related organisations should conduct an intensive inspection of operation upkeep, schooling, and coaching,” Choi stated.

Aviation specialists have raised a sequence of doable causes and contributing elements within the catastrophe, together with a collision with birds, mechanical failure, and the presence of a hardened embankment lower than 300 metres (328 yards) from the tip of the runway.

The Boeing 737-800 belly-landed on the runway, with out its touchdown gear deployed, shortly after the pilot reported a hen strike to air visitors management, earlier than skidding right into a concrete embankment and exploding into flames.

The crash was the deadliest accident involving a South Korean airline since a Korean Air Boeing 747 crashed right into a Guam hillside in 1997, killing 228 folks.