Police Raid Muan Airport and Jeju Air Offices Due to “Profesional Negligence” Investigation
I don’t think I have ever heard of an airport being raided by the police before, but here we are:
Police on Thursday raided Muan International Airport, the office of Jeju Air and other locations over the airline’s deadly crash that killed 179 people.
The Jeonnam Provincial Police conducted search and seizure operations into the airport in southwest South Korea, the Seoul office of Jeju Air and the Muan office of the Busan Regional Office of Aviation, officials said.
The search warrant was issued on charges of professional negligence resulting in death, officials said.
You can read more at the link, but maybe the police should also raid the offices of the politicians who decided to build a little used airport in the middle of a bird migration wetland as well?
They seem to be eager to place blame before all the details of the crash are released…
Lock all the commies up
Just let the NTSB do their investigation and publish their report, make sure airline and airport cooperate. Probably too much to ask.
There seems to be a very intentional effort to avoid addressing the very separate issues in this tragedy.
– the unnecessary and sense-defying hardened barrier at the end of the runway
– bird management. Airports seem to be responsible for a 13km radius and the birdstrike was about 1.5km away
– why the airplane landed the way it did
These all have different responsible parties, timeframes, and dependencies. They need to be addressed differently.
It is unclear what a police “raid” means and what its utility could possibly be.
Machineguns drawn, flashbangs, “Everybody get on the goddamʼn floor right now! Let me see your hands!”
Investigator inquiry seems better phrasing. “So, who made the decision to put that concrete behemoth down there where planes go when they don’t already have enough problems?” and “How would you compare your bird policy to these ones I printed out from other airports?”
While antenna mounts and birds are an issue, they are not THE issue, as they have been going on harmlessly for a long time.
The issue is the way the plane landed.
And there seems to be a group effort to not talk about that.
The voice recorder data is already downloaded.
We know what it says.
“Abort the landing, raise the flaps, raise the gear, increase power, shut the engine down.”
“Doh!”