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?
Hopefully other countries learn from what happened in Korea and inspect all their navigation facilities as well to make them safer if a plane overshoots the runway:
The government will inspect navigation facilities that assist in aircraft landings at all domestic airports, following mounting evidence that a concrete structure supporting a localizer — a navigation aid — may have exacerbated the severity of the impact when the ill-fated Jeju Air plane crashed at Muan International Airport, the transport ministry said Wednesday.
The investigation will focus on whether the materials used for the structure and its distance from the runway comply with domestic and international standards.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said it is investigating the materials used in navigation aid facilities at all airports nationwide. The localizer, a key navigational aid, helps aircraft align with the runway during landing.
Korean research boat’s search for crashed plane This photo, provided by the South Korean Embassy in Indonesia, shows the South Korean marine exploration ship Ara arriving at the northern port of Jakarta on Jan. 11, 2021, to join an operation to find an Indonesian plane that crashed in the Java Sea on Jan. 9. The yellow dotted line marks out a multibeam echosounder. The state-of-the-art research vessel has been in the Southeast Asian nation as part of the South Korean government’s official development assistance (ODA) program. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)
