Rep. Lee Yang-soo, proper, of the Folks Energy Social gathering chairs a gathering of a particular parliamentary investigation committee into final 12 months’s lethal Jeju Air crash on the Nationwide Meeting in western Seoul, Monday. Yonhap
The Nationwide Meeting on Monday launched a particular parliamentary committee to research the precise explanation for final 12 months’s deadly Jeju Air airplane crash that claimed 179 lives.
On Dec. 29 final 12 months, the Jeju Air jet from Bangkok erupted into flames after crashing right into a concrete mound because it overshot the runway when it made an emergency stomach touchdown at Muan Worldwide Airport, South Jeolla Province, following a hen strike.
The 18-member committee, which is able to run for not less than 40 days, plans to look carefully into elements which will have been blamed for the crash, together with the hen strike, the mound the jet crashed into and potential plane defects.
It is going to additionally examine whether or not any cover-up makes an attempt have been made within the authorities’s investigation into the crash.
The committee’s launch comes after the federal government shelved a plan to announce the interim outcomes of its investigation earlier this month.
Relations of the tragedy’s victims have voiced opposition towards the federal government investigation, elevating questions on its transparency and credibility and calling for an impartial probe.
