Seoul, southern Korea-initial results of investigation of the December devastating air accident Jeju in South Korea showed that while both engines have suffered birds’ strikes, its pilots turned off less damaged just before its accident. The findings that indicated human mistakes attracted fast, vehement protests from surviving families and pilot colleagues who blame the authorities that they are trying to move responsibility for the catastrophe to dead pilots.
The Council for Investigations of Air and Railway accidents in South Korea originally planned to publish the results of the aircraft engines on Saturday. However, according to government officials and surviving families, it was forced to abolish their press briefing in the face of strong protests of relatives of the victims of accidents who were on the day.
“If they want to say that their investigation was carried out in a reliable, independent way, they should come up with evidence that back up their explanations,” said Kim Yu-Jin, head of the association of surviving families. “None of us hate pilots.”
The Boeing 737-800 operated by the company of Jeju Air landed on the stomach without its land deployed at the International Airport in South Korea 29 December. It crossed the escape, slammed into a specific structure and invaded the flames. It was the deadliest disaster in the history of South Korea’s aviation in decades and killed everyone except two out of 181 people on board.
According to a copy of the unpublished briefing report obtained by the Associated Press, the South Korean multilateral investigative team said it had not found any defects in the engines built by the French Safran and GE.
The report stated that thorough engine tests found that the true engine of the aircraft suffered more serious internal damage to birds’ strikes because it was absorbed by large fires and black smoke. But the pilots turned off the left engine of the aircraft, the report said that the probes were quoted in the Caucasus Voice Code, the flight recorder and engine tests.
The officials previously said that black boxes Boeing Jetliner stopped recording about four minutes before the accident and complicated the investigation of the cause of the disaster. The cockpit voice recorder and the flight recorder referred to in the briefing report refer to the data stored before the record stop.
The message did not say why the pilots turned off the less damaged engine and stopped when the pilots were a mistake.
Given families and pilots in the Air Air and other airlines have strengthened the investigation and stated that the authorities must publish a cockpit and flight recorder.
“We, 6,500 Civillean Airlines pilots, cannot contain our anger against the absurd argument of the Aviation and Railway Investigation Council that has lost neutrality,” Korean pilot trade union said on Tuesday.
The joined pilots in the Jeju Air also issued a statement asking the authorities to submit scientific evidence to show that the aircraft should land normally if it flew with a less damaged engine.
The latest report focused only on engine problems and did not mention other factors that could also be accused of accident. Among them is the concrete structure that the plane crashed. The antenna set called localizers designed to safely guide the aircraft during landing, and many analysts say it should be made with easier broken materials. Some pilots say that they suspect that the government would not want to blame localizers or bird punches for bulk deaths, because Muan Airport is under direct management of the Ministry of Transport.
The Council for Investigations of Air and Railway Accidents and the Ministry of Transport did not offer any public response to criticism. They said they would not publicly discuss the engine investigation to respect the requirements of surviving families.
The person familiar with the investigation said that the authorities are looking at localizers and other problems, such as whether the air traffic control controls the danger, that pilots will quickly strike bird, fast enough and what the pilots offered emergency training of the Air. A person who applied for anonymity who was cited by the sensitive nature of the investigation said that the authorities had previously planned to publish the results of probes after reviewing various questions, but changed the plan and tried to publish the outcome of the engine investigation at the request of the surviving families. He said that the authorities do not intend to lay responsibility for the disaster of pilots.
The authorities seek to disclose the final results of the investigation until next June, the person said.
Kwon Bo Hun, Dean of Aeronautics College at the University of South Korea, South Korea, called the report on the engine investigation “clumsy” because it did not publish the evidence that supported its findings on pilots. He said that only “emotional parts of us” were irritated, because the investigation caused that it blames the dead pilots.
The former professor of the Ministry of Transport, which was reflected in the report on the engine investigation, must be “reliable” because it is based on the analysis of the cockpit and the laws on flight data that they do not lie. He spoke on a condition of anonymity when he quoted the subtle nature of the problem.
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