TOPSHOT - Police forensics personnel and National Bureau of Investigation officials are seen by a wall as they work at the scene where a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 aircraft crashed and burst into flames at Muan International Airport in Muan, some 288 kilometres southwest of Seoul on December 31, 2024. The Boeing 737-800 was carrying 181 people from Thailand to South Korea when it crashed on arrival on December 29, killing everyone aboard -- save two flight attendants pulled from the twisted wreckage of the worst aviation disaster on South Korean soil. - Photo by YONHAP / AFP
SEOUL (Bloomberg): South Korean authorities are investigating airport infrastructure at the site of the country’s worst civil air accident as questions grow over the role played in the disaster by a concrete wall at the end of the runway.
Transport officials said at a briefing Tuesday they would assess whether the concrete structure, which supported an array of antennas used to guide a plane’s landing at Muan International Airport, violated any rules. Earlier, the same officials said the structure - known as a localizer - was placed in accordance with international standards outside the runway’s 199-meter safety area.
