SEOUL: The Transport Ministry of South Korea has set up a new committee to enhance air travel in the nation that experienced two significant aviation incidents within a month of one another, with the goal of completely rebuilding the country’s aviation safety system.
“The government will make a determined effort to rebuild the aviation safety system from the ground up to restore trust in our country’s aviation safety system,” Deputy Minister of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport Baek Won-kuk informed the committee, according to a ministry release.
He went on to say that aviation safety must be a primary concern for the administration.
The budget airline Jeju Air’s aircraft crashed at the Muan airport on December 29, killing all but two of the 181 passengers and staff members on board, making it the greatest air catastrophe to ever occur in South Korea.
According to a preliminary investigative report, duck remnants were discovered in both of the plane’s engines, suggesting that bird strikes had taken place before the disaster.
Experts say that several factors almost invariably contribute to air mishaps.
All people on board were successfully evacuated when an Air Busan aircraft caught fire at Busan International Airport last week as the budget airline’s aircraft was ready to take off.
Air Busan stated that a flight attendant initially saw the fire in an overhead luggage bin toward the back of the aircraft.
The causes of both occurrences are still being looked into.
Experts from the business sector will be on the 10-week committee, which will examine topics such airport building and operation, maintenance, and aircraft utilization rates at low-cost carriers.
Authorities have already announced plans to modify similar structures at seven airports around the nation in reaction to the Jeju Air tragedy, in which the jet belly landed before crashing into a concrete embankment that supported navigation equipment beyond the end of Muan’s runway. — Reuters