Local police have conducted a raid of the offices of Jeju Air as well as Muan Airport and the Busan regional aviation body as part of its investigations into the crash that killed 179 people on December 29.
The raids have been conducted on a charge of ‘professional negligence resulting in death’. However, while senior airline staff have been prevented from leaving the country, no arrests have yet been reported.
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The accident, which saw a Boeing 737-800 crash down with no landing gear the wrong way on the runway, before hitting a concrete retaining wall, is the deadliest in South Korean aviation since a Korean Air Boeing 747 crashed into a Guam hillside in 1997, killing 228 people.
“We are in contact with Jeju Air regarding flight 2216 and stand ready to support them. We extend our deepest condolences to the families who lost loved ones, and our thoughts remain with the passengers and crew,” Boeing said in a statement.
Authorities have said that data has been extracted from one of the aircraft’s black boxes, with the other having been sent to the U.S to extract the data, on account of it having been damaged in the crash.
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