Seizures at the Muan airport and at the company headquarters in Seoul
The South Korean police announced that “a search and seizure operation was conducted” this morning regarding the plane crash that cost the lives of 179 people: the officers entered Muan airport, the office of the Jeju Air company in Seoul and a local branch of the regional aviation authority.
“The police intend to quickly and rigorously determine the cause and responsibility of this accident in accordance with the law,” the authorities involved in the operation explained.
On Sunday, a Boeing 737-800 of the South Korean low-cost airline coming from Bangkok landed on its stomach and hit a concrete wall at the end of the runway, folding in two and catching fire. Only two of the 181 people on board the flight – a stewardess and a steward – survived the crash, South Korea’s worst air disaster in history.
