Another Jeju Air plane has suffered a problem similar to the one suffered by the plane that crashed this Sunday in the southwest of the country. leaving 179 fatalities. Luckily, this time there were no personal injuries, but the new incident has caused the South Korean authorities to announce that they will carry out “rigorous safety inspections” on the Jeju Air airline.
The South Korean Ministry of Infrastructure and Transportation has confirmed during a briefing that it plans to “implement rigorous aviation safety inspections in response to the landing gear incidents,” according to the state news agency Yonhap. For this, the help of the National Transportation Safety Board of the United States will be counted on and the collaboration of Boeing, the aircraft manufacturer, with whom it has already been in contact, is also expected.
The announcement comes after a flight from the low-cost company that departed from Gimpo airport this Monday at 6:37 a.m. (Sunday at 10:37 p.m. in mainland Spain and the Balearic Islands) was forced to return after detecting a problem with your landing gear. An event that occurred less than 24 hours after the fatal accident at Muan International Airport, about 290 kilometers southwest of the capital, Seoul, after the plane could not deploy its landing gear.
This plane, a Boeing B737-800 had made another 13 flights in the 48 hours prior to the accidentwith several international destinations among the routes, industry sources cited to the Yonhap agency have indicated. This same medium has reported more than 68,000 ticket cancellations in just 24 hours.
Identification of the deceased
The Government has announced that the remains of 141 of the 179 killed in Sunday’s accident have been provisionally identified, after they were transferred to a temporary morgue. “Once we are ready to transfer the bodies after the autopsies carried out by investigators, we will contact the families,” the spokesperson said.
The victims’ belongings are being collected from the runway where the accident took place, which will remain under guard while waiting for the authorities to investigate the cause of the incident.
Local authorities in Gwangju and South Jeolla Province, which together lost 157 residents in the accident, will set up at least three altars, extending until the end of the seven-day national mourning period, the news agency reports. South Korean.
