The Korea Airport Corporation will handle the matter.
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This article is part of our coverage of the fatal crash of Jeju Air Flight 2216. You can read more and view the entire timeline here.
On December 29th, around 9:00 am, Jeju water the plane collided with a wall while attempting to land and caught fire.
Around 9pm KST the same day, rescue authorities officially confirmed that 179 of the 181 passengers on board the flight died as a result of the crash.
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December 31st Korean Airport Corporation confirmed that it had issued a directive to make the tracker easy to break when the Muan International Airport project was announced.
This was pointed out as the cause of the Jeju Air plane crash, as it was installed as a concrete mound.
Kookmin Ilbo obtained the tender announcement for detailed design service of Muan Airport Instrument Landing Structure Improvement Project from Korea Airport Corporation on March 3, 2020.
The task description included reviewing measures to ensure fragility.
When designing instrument landing structures such as antennas, tours and foundations, frangibility must be considered.
Furthermore, when they looked at the location of the landing facility installation, they stated this “Results of the review must be presented, including related laws, aviation lights, obstacle limiting surfaces.”
The localizer in dispute was one of the Instrument Landing Systems (ILS). The trackers are designed to be easily broken to minimize collision damage in an “overrun” situation, such as the Jeju Air plane crash. This is also under the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transportairport security operational standards and ICAO manual.
However, Muan’s tracker installed the antenna on a foundation about 2 meters high covered with concrete. It used a concrete structure as a type of foundation to support the antenna.
According to the standards of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, objects approved for installation in the runway end safety zone must not have a load-bearing structure higher than 7.5 cm and must be easy to break.
It is also stated in the manual Frangibility principle as a separate clause, stating that objects or structures installed on the track must be installed in such a way that they can be easily broken or deformed.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport plans to investigate the accident and the mound. It was revealed that the airport built the concrete pile last year to replace equipment.
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