Sunday website A South Korean low-cost airline The Jeju Airlines plane crash is being investigated by US investigators, some of whom are from the plane's manufacturer.
All but two of the 181 people on board were killed Boeing 737-800 Making this the deadliest plane crash in South Korea in decades. Investigators hope that evidence collected from the accident scene will help them determine why the pilot attempted to land after declaring a state of emergency.
The airline said, according to what was reported by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), that the pre-flight inspection did not find “any problems.”
The Guardian reported that flight data such as speed, altitude, fuel levels and voice recordings from the cockpit will be examined through two flight recorders located separately in the plane, which are commonly referred to as black boxes.
South Korean Army soldiers at Muan International Airport in Muan, South Korea on Tuesday after a plane crashed there on Sunday. (AP Photo/Ahn Young Joon)
Air safety experts on Tuesday questioned the location of the airport bridge that the passenger plane hit after skidding past the end of the runway, a video showed.
Comments in the airport's operating manual, uploaded in early 2024, said the embankment was too close to the end of the runway and recommended reviewing the location of the equipment during the planned expansion, Reuters reported.
Plane veers off runway in South Korea and crashes, killing 179 people: reports
A memorial stands outside Muan International Airport in Muan, South Korea on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ahn Young Joon)
Experts from the US National Transportation Safety Board and a joint US-South Korean investigation team were shown at the site of Sunday's plane crash at Muan International Airport in Muan, South Korea on Tuesday. (Son Hyung-joo/Yonhap via AP)
the South Korean government Safety checks have been launched on all 101 Boeing 737-800 aircraft in the country. The Ministry of Transport said that authorities are looking into maintenance and operation records during five days of safety checks that will continue until Friday.
The department said that a delegation of eight US investigators – one from the Federal Aviation Administration, three from the National Transportation Safety Board and four from Boeing – visited the crash site on Tuesday. Their test results were not immediately available.
South Korean Army soldiers work outside Muan International Airport on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ahn Young Joon)
While it will likely take months to determine the cause of the accident, Lee Jeong-hyun, head of the Muan Fire Station, previously said workers were looking into various possibilities, including whether the plane had hit the birds.
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“A bird hitting an engine could cause the engine to stop running, but there are a lot of redundant systems, and it doesn't make sense. We're not in the dark, but we know the runway is 9,200 feet long. It's a very long way,” aviation consultant Mike Boyd told the network. Fox News Sunday: “It (the plane) was very high, hot and fast, and we don't know why that was the real problem.”
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
