The interim president, who was appointed to his position last Friday, promised all possible resources to be used by the researchers in order to find out the cause of the accident.
BEIJING In South Korea, I mourn the 179 victims of Sunday’s plane crash.
Jeju Air’s passenger plane made an emergency landing where its landing gear did not open for some reason.
The plane crashed into an embankment behind the runway and caught fire.
There were 175 passengers and six crew members on the Boeing 737-800 plane flying from Bangkok to Muan, South Korea. The two survivors are hospitalized.
One possible cause of the accident has been considered to be that the plane collided with a flock of birds. However, several experts question the explanation.
The news agency Yonhap reports that another Jeju Air 737-800 passenger plane also had an unidentified fault in the landing gear on Monday. Shortly after takeoff, the plane returned safely to Seoul Airport.
– We have maintained the machines in accordance with the rules and nothing unusual has been observed in connection with the maintenance, CEO of Jeju Air Kim E-bae quoth.
Boeing, which manufactured the accident plane in 2009, also announced that it was not aware of possible technical problems.
Boeing’s 737 Max 9 planes have been temporarily grounded three times. The last time this happened was last January, when a piece fell from the fuselage of an Alaska Airlines plane on a scheduled flight.
Boeing’s 737-800 model passenger planes have been considered reliable, at least until now.
South Korea is in the grip of a serious political crisis. On Friday, the country had its interim president fired and impeached By Yoon Suk-yeol in place of.
Interim President Choi Sang-Mok promised that the cause of the accident will be thoroughly investigated. He said that he had assigned all possible resources of the government to the use of researchers.