SEOUL, South Korea — Grieving relations of the victims of the South Korea airplane crash gathered on the website to pay respects to their family members on New 12 months’s Day, as officers mentioned they’ve extracted knowledge from one of many retrieved black bins to search out the precise reason behind the crash.
All however two of the 181 passengers and crew on board the Boeing 737-800 operated by Jeju Air died when it crashed at Muan Worldwide Airport, in southern South Korea, on Sunday.
Video confirmed the plane with out its touchdown gear deployed touchdown on its stomach at excessive velocity after which skidding off the tip of the runaway right into a concrete fence and bursting into flames. The footage confirmed the airplane was experiencing an obvious engine drawback along with the touchdown gear malfunction.
Investigators say the pilot acquired a warning from air visitors controllers of attainable chook strikes and the airplane issued a misery sign earlier than the crash.
The Transport Ministry mentioned in a press release Wednesday that it has accomplished works to extract knowledge from the cockpit voice recorder — one of many two black bins recovered from the wreckage. It mentioned the information could be transformed into audio recordsdata. A broken flight knowledge recorder will probably be despatched to the US for an evaluation, the ministry added.
The entire victims have been South Korean, besides for 2 Thais nationals, with many getting back from Bangkok after Christmas holidays.
The bereaved households visited the location on Wednesday for the primary time because the crash for an emotional memorial service. They have been bused to the location the place they took turns laying white flowers. Many knelt and bowed deeply earlier than a memorial desk laid with meals, together with “ddeokguk,” a Korean rice cake soup eaten on New 12 months’s Day.
The Transport Ministry mentioned authorities have accomplished the difficult strategy of figuring out all 179 victims. It mentioned the federal government has thus far handed over 11 our bodies to relations.
The nation is observing seven days of nationwide mourning following the deadliest catastrophe in South Korea’s aviation historical past in many years.
The federal government has begun security inspections of all 101 Boeing 737-800s operated by the nation’s home airways. On Tuesday, a staff of U.S. investigators, together with representatives from Boeing, examined the crash website.
Officers have mentioned they are going to take into account whether or not the airport’s localizer — a set of antennas housed in a concrete fence on the finish of the runway designed to information plane throughout landings — ought to have been constructed with lighter supplies that will break extra simply upon impression.