Gety picturesAll South Korea airports will need to install bird detection cameras and thermal photography radar, after the air collapsed in December of last year, 179 people were killed.
The pass is scheduled to occur in 2026.
Investigators said last week that they found evidence of the bird strike on the Boeing 737-800 – with feathers and blood spots on both the plane's engines.
The investigation of the accident – the bloodiest in the South Korean soil – is continuing but will focus on the role of bird strike in addition to a concrete structure at the end of the runway, which the plane criticized after the emergency landing.
The Ministry of Lands said in a statement on Thursday: “Radias will be installed in all airports to enhance the early detection of distant birds and improve the capabilities of the aircraft.”
Radar detects birds the size of birds and their movement paths and deporting this information to air traffic monitors.
The ministry added that all airports will also need to be equipped with at least one heat camera.
Currently, only four airports in South Korea are equipped with thermal cameras. It is not clear whether any of them has bird detection radars in place.
The sites that attract birds, such as garbage dumps, should also be transferred away from airports.
Earlier last month, South Korea announced that seven airports will get its runway areas after a review of all airports in the country that was carried out after the accident.
The cause of the accident is still unknown, but air safety experts said earlier that the number of victims could have been much less if not for the structure in which the plane crashed after the emergency landing.
On December 29, the plane, from the Budget Air Company, was launched from Bangkok and was flying to Moan International Airport in the southwest of the country.
At approximately 08:57 local time, three minutes after contacting the pilots with the airport, the observation tower advised that the crew be careful of “bird activity”.
At 08:59, the pilot stated that the plane had hit a bird and announced the Mi Day signal.
Then the pilot asked for permission to fall from the opposite direction, as it was spreading the landing equipment. The initial investigation report concluded that it exceeded the runway and exploded after the recovery in the concrete structure.
Airlines and sound recordings in the cockpit stopped recording four minutes before the disaster, an investigation was found in the black boxes later.
The age of 179 was traveling on the Boeing B737-800, between the ages of three and 78, although most of them were in the 1940s, 1950s and sixties. Two members of the cabin crew were the only survivors.
