S. Korea wants to rebuild air safety system after crash, fire

SEOUL, South Korea — 

South Korea aims to rebuild its aviation information strategy from scratch, the transport ministry said connected Tuesday, launching a caller committee to amended aerial question successful the state that suffered 2 large aviation incidents a period apart.

"In bid to reconstruct spot successful our country's aviation information system, the authorities volition marque a determined effort to rebuild the aviation information strategy from the crushed up," Deputy Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Baek Won-kuk volition archer the committee, the ministry connection said.

The authorities indispensable code aviation information arsenic a apical priority, helium added.

In the deadliest aerial catastrophe ever connected South Korean soil, a level belonging to fund hose Jeju Air crashed astatine the country's Muan airdrome connected Dec. 29, sidesplitting each but 2 of the 181 passengers and unit members connected board.

Duck remains were recovered successful some engines of the plane, a preliminary probe study said, indicating vertebrate strikes occurred earlier the crash. Air accidents are astir ever caused by a operation of factors, according to experts.

Last week, an Air Busan level was engulfed successful flames astatine Busan's planetary airdrome arsenic the low-cost carrier's pitchy prepared to depart, with each connected committee evacuated safely.

The occurrence was archetypal detected by a formation attendant successful an overhead luggage bin successful the rear of the plane, Air Busan has said.

Investigations into the causes of some incidents are ongoing.

The 10-week committee volition see backstage assemblage experts and volition look astatine issues including attraction and craft utilization rates astatine fund airlines, and airdrome operation and operation.

In effect to the Jeju Air crash, which saw the level belly onshore but past plow into a factual embankment supporting navigation instrumentality past the extremity of Muan's runway, authorities already said they would amend akin structures astatine 7 airports astir the country.