US EditionSouth Korea finds faulty approvals at airport where Jeju Air plane crashed
A cost-saving concrete mound at Muan Airport was linked to the deadly crash that killed 179 people; a government simulation showed all would have survived without it.
- On Dec. 29, 2024, a Jeju Air jet from Bangkok made a belly landing and collided with a buried concrete structure at Muan Airport, killing 179 people.
- The Board of Audit and Inspection found the transport ministry built a concrete mound to reduce costs instead of reshaping sloping terrain, approved without a vulnerability assessment, and KAC demanded a 2007 review.
- Safety standards call for breakable supports for navigation antennas, and investigators found the localiser in a crumpled state after the collision; the study found the aircraft would have slid about 770 metres if the runway had been obstacle-free.
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South Korea finds faulty approvals at airport where Jeju Air plane crashed
South Korea's transport ministry cut construction costs and approved improper airport safety structures for more than two decades, the state auditor said in a report on aviation safety management after a Jeju Air crash that killed 179 people.
The air disaster in South Korea, involving a Jeju Air aircraft, cost the lives of 179 people. A concrete wall, built to reduce costs, is in question. The families of the victims demand justice.
The concrete wall that a commercial plane crashed into in South Korea in December 2024, killing 179 people, was built to seek to “reduce the costs” of installing a navigation aid system, the South Korean auditor said on Tuesday.
The South Korean comptroller revealed in a report published on Tuesday that the wall against which a commercial aircraft crashed in December 2024 was built to seek to "reduce costs".
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