South Korean police raid airport, Jeju Air offices after deadly crash

Police searches travel arsenic aviation authorities are probing the origin of the deadliest aerial catastrophe connected South Korean soil.

Police successful South Korea person raided Muan planetary airport, the offices of Jeju Air and a determination aviation assemblage amid investigations into the deadliest-ever aerial catastrophe connected South Korean soil.

The Jeonnam Provincial Police Agency carried retired the “search and seizure operation” astatine the 3 locations connected Thursday morning, officials said.

The raids travel arsenic aviation authorities, including officials from the United States, are probing the origin of the deadly clang of Jeju Air Flight 2216 connected Sunday, which killed 179 of 181 radical connected board.

South Korean authorities said connected Wednesday that they extracted the archetypal information from 1 of the Boeing 737-800’s 2 achromatic boxes, with the different to beryllium sent to the United States for investigation owed to harm it suffered successful the crash.

South Korean officials person launched an inspection of each Boeing 737-800 craft successful cognition arsenic good arsenic a wider probe of the country’s full hose operations.

South Korean acting president, Choi Sang-mok, said connected Thursday that contiguous enactment indispensable beryllium taken if the inspections revealed immoderate problems with the craft model.

“As there’s large nationalist interest astir the aforesaid craft exemplary progressive successful the accident, the transport ministry and applicable organisations indispensable behaviour a thorough inspection of cognition maintenance, education, and training,” Choi said.

Aviation experts person raised a bid of imaginable causes and contributing factors successful the disaster, including a collision with birds, mechanical failure, and the beingness of a hardened embankment little than 300 metres (328 yards) from the extremity of the runway.

The Boeing 737-800 belly-landed connected the runway, without its landing cogwheel deployed, soon aft the aviator reported a vertebrate onslaught to aerial postulation control, earlier skidding into a factual embankment and exploding into flames.

The clang was the deadliest mishap involving a South Korean hose since a Korean Air Boeing 747 crashed into a Guam hillside successful 1997, sidesplitting 228 people.

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