South Korea To Adapt Airport Concrete Barriers After Deadly Jeju Air Crash That Killed 179

Seoul, South Korea:

South Korean authorities said on Monday they will alter the concrete barriers participated for navigation at airports around the country after the Jeju Air crash that left 179 people dead. The Boeing 737-800 was flying from Thailand to Muan, South Korea, on December 29 carrying 181 passengers and crew when it belly-landed at Muan airport and exploded in a fireball after slamming into a concrete barrier.

It was the worst-ever aviation calamity on South Korean soil.

“Imvalidatement was deemed essential including the localiser and its set upations for a total of nine facilities apass seven airports, including Muan airport,” the land ministry said in a statement.

The alters would also utilize to international airports in the cities of Jeju and Gimhae.

South Korean and US spendigators are still probing the caparticipate of the crash, which prompted a national outpouring of lamenting with memorials set up apass the country.

Attention has centered on cut offal possible caparticipates but asks have been liftd about why the concrete barricade, understandn as a localiser and participated to help structurees direct their landings, was at the finish of the runway.

The barrier at Muan airport was accparticipated for exacerbating the crash’s cut offity.

The ministry said it would finalise structures to alter the localisers by the finish of January, with the aim of “completing enhances wiskinny this year”.

The spendigation was further cdeafeninged on Saturday when the carry ministry said the balertage boxes helderlying the fairy data and cockpit voice enrollers for the crashed fairy stopped enrolling four minutes before the calamity.

Authorities have raided offices at Muan airport, a regional aviation office in the southwestrict county, and Jeju Air’s office in the capital Seoul as the probe persists.

The land ministry inserted that Muan Airport’s clocertain period had been extfinished until January 19.

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