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Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport “2 hours worth… “No damage”
The search for the cause of the accident is likely to speed up.
On the 2nd, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport’s Air and Rail Accident Investigation Committee (Sajo Committee) secured an audio file containing the content of the communication between the captain and the Muan Airport controller just before the Muan Jeju Air passenger plane disaster. As a result, the identification of the cause of the accident is expected to speed up.
In a briefing on the 2nd, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said, “The investigation committee completed the task of converting the data extracted from the voice recording device (CVR) into an audio file this morning,” and added, “The investigator plans to investigate the facts while listening to the audio file.”
CVR, one of the aircraft’s black boxes, is a device that records communication between the captain and controller, conversations inside the cockpit, and various warning sounds within the aircraft. The audio file is 2 hours long just before the accident. It is said that the conversion was completed without any data damage. It is expected that the cause of the accident will be identified more quickly if various recordings are obtained just before the accident. However, regarding whether to release the audio file, he replied, “We will discuss with the investigation committee, but it will not be easy.”
The previous day, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport decided to send the flight data recorder (FDR), a black box that stores the flight path and speed of the aircraft, to the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) for analysis. In response to some concerns that the results would be favorable to Boeing, he responded, “There is no need to worry about biased results because the committee’s investigators will also be involved in the investigation.”
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport responded to the controversy that the Muan Airport localizer antenna (azimuth facility) improvement work violated the design guideline of ‘installation to be easy to break.’ “The intention was to make the foundation easier to break,” he said. This means that the design guidelines were not designed with the concrete mound, which was pointed out as the cause of the disaster, in mind. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport decided to conduct special inspections of navigation safety facilities such as localizers at airports across the country from this day to the 8th.
Osong = Reporter Oh Seung-jun [email protected]
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