141 of the 179 dead in the plane crash in South Korea identified
MADRID, 30 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The South Korean authorities announced this Monday that they will carry out “rigorous safety inspections” on the airline Jeju Air, after a plane crashed this Sunday in the southwest of the country killing 179 people and the same occurred this Monday problem on another company flight, with no fatalities reported.
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.
The head of aviation policy for the ministerial portfolio, Joo Jong-wan, has also reported that the United States National Transportation Safety Board will participate in the investigation and that the collaboration of Boeing, the aircraft manufacturer, is expected. , with whom you have already contacted.
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.
Less than 24 hours earlier, another airline plane with 181 occupants crashed into a wall during a landing maneuver at Muan International Airport, about 290 kilometers southwest of the capital, Seoul, with the same problem.
The Ministry has also announced that the remains of 141 of the 179 deceased in this 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,” he 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.