South Korea may change the material restrictions used for tracking at nine flights across the country following December’s helicopter crash that killed 179 people.
Seven flights will also have their airport health places adapted following a review of all South Korea’s airports that was carried out after the accident- the deadliest in the government’s story.
The Jeju Air flight was bringing individuals house from Thailand after Christmas when it made an emergency landing at Muan aircraft and exploded after slamming into a concrete hurdle at the end of the airport.
The cause of the accident is still unfamiliar but heat health authorities had earlier said the number of deaths could have been much lower if not for the construction.
The practical construction holds a routing program that assists plane landings- known as a localiser. South Korea’s transport ministry had said this technique could also be found in various airports in the country and even overseas.
Health inspectors have then identified nine of these methods, which they say need to be altered. These include the methods at Muan and Jeju International Airport which is the country’s second-largest aircraft.
They are looking to either remove the concrete foundations with more light buildings or destroy them under.
Officers added that Muan International Airport’s existing material hills may be removed completely and the localiser “reinstalled using breakable structures”.
Following the crash, it emerged that an acting regular from Muan International Airport, uploaded earlier in 2024, had said the practical slope was very close to the end of the airport.
The report, prepared by Korea Airports Corp, had recommended the location of the technology become reviewed during a anticipated growth.
Chris Kingswood, a pilot with 48 years’ experience who has flown the same type of aircraft involved in the crash, previously told the BBC that “obstacles within a certain range and distance of the runway are required to be frangible, which means that if an aircraft strikes them that they do break.
Apart from the barriers, seven airports will also have their runway safety areas adapted after the investigation found that they were shorter than the recommended 240m ( 787ft ).
According to reports, the airport security place at Muan air-port had been about 200m much.
A airport security place refers to an area located to, or at the end of a runway, meant to reduce damage to aircraft if they overrun, undershoot or wander off the runway.
The 179 passengers onboard the Boeing B737-800 plane were aged between three and 78 years old, although most were in their 40s, 50s and 60s. Two cabin crew members were the only survivors.
Investigators are still looking into what caused the crash, but the pilot had warned of a bird strike before pulling out of a first landing attempt. The plane crashed on its second landing attempt when the landing gear did not emerge.
Flight data and cockpit voice recorders stopped recording four minutes before the disaster, an investigation into the black boxes later found.