The wreckage of Jeju Air Co. Flight 2216 at Muan Worldwide Airport in Muan County, South Korea, on Monday, Dec. 30, 2024.
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South Korea’s appearing President Choi Sang-mok has ordered the transport ministry to hold out an emergency security inspection of the nation’s airline operation system, native information company Yonhap reported Monday.
Choi was talking at a catastrophe management assembly in Seoul, after a Jeju Air flight crashed on the nation’s Muan Worldwide Airport on Sunday, resulting in 179 fatalities with simply two survivors, making it the deadliest air accident in South Korea.
“The pilot declared mayday after issuing the hen strike alert,” stated Joo Jong-wan, director of aviation coverage division on the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.
Choi pledged that the federal government would “spare no effort” in supporting the bereaved households, and declared a seven-day mourning interval for the nation.
At a press briefing on Sunday, Jeju Air’s head of the administration help workplace Tune Kyung-hoon stated the airline would help the victims and their households, and that the plane was coated by a $1 billion insurance coverage, reported Yonhap.
Addressing experiences {that a} bird strike was the reason for the crash, Jeju Air CEO Kim E-bae neither confirmed nor denied it.
“At present, the precise explanation for the accident has but to be decided, and we should await the official investigation by authorities companies,” Kim stated in a Sunday statement.
Tune dismissed accusations that mechanical faults or insufficient security preparations performed a job within the crash.
“This crash is just not about any upkeep points. There may be completely no compromise on the subject of sustaining plane,” Tune stated.
On Monday, a Jeju Air flight reportedly returned to Gimpo Worldwide Airport shortly after taking off as a result of the same challenge with the airplane’s touchdown gear was detected.
The accident comes at a politically fraught time for South Korea.
Choi is the nation’s second appearing president in a month. He assumed the function after appearing President Han Duck-soon was impeached on Friday by lawmakers over his reluctance to nominate three justices to the Constitutional Courtroom trying into the impeachment of former President Yoon Suk Yeol.
Yoon was impeached a mere just weeks back, after imposing martial regulation for six hours firstly of the month for the primary time because the army coup of 1979.
Shares of Jeju Air hit an all-time low Monday, in response to FactSet information, and had been final down 8.53%. Different Korean airways’ shares had been unstable.
