Seoul, South Korea (AP)-the initial results of a Jeju devastating crash in South Korea have shown that while both engines of the aircraft maintained bumps with birds, its pilots excluded the less damaged one before its crash. The finding, which suggested human mistakes, attracted quick, furious protests from families from victims and fellow pilots who accused authorities of trying to shift responsibility for the disaster to dead pilots.
The South Korean Aviation and Railway Investigation Council initially plans to publish the results of an airplane engine investigation on Saturday. But he was forced to cancel his briefing in the press before strong protests by relatives of victims of crashes who were informed about the findings earlier during the day, according to civil servants and families of the victims.
“If they want to say that their investigation was done in a reliable, independent way, they had to come up with evidence that supports their explanation,” says Kim Y-Jin, head of the Association of Families of the Victims. “None of us resent the pilots.”
The Boeing 737-800, operated by Jeju Air, landed on his belly without his land equipment, located at South Korea International Airport in South Muan on December 29. He overcomes an escape stuck in a concrete structure and burst into flames. It was the most deadly crash in South Korea’s aviation history for decades, killing everyone but two of 181 people on board.
The investigation signaled pilots turned off the wrong engine
According to a copy of an unpublished briefing report received by the Associated Press, a multilateral investigation team led by South Korea, said it did not detect defects in the engines of the aircraft built by France Safran and Ge.
The report said that the in -depth engine inspections found that the right engine of the aircraft had suffered more serious internal damage after hitting the birds as it was swallowed by major fires and black smoke. But the pilots turned off the left engine of the aircraft, the report said, quoting probes for the voice recorder of the cockpit, the recorder of flight data and engine reviews.
Early employees said the black boxes of Boeing Jetliner had stopped recording about four minutes before the incident, complicating investigations into the cause of the disaster. The voice recorder of the cockpit and the flight recorder cited in the briefing report refers to data stored before the recording is stopped.
The report does not say why pilots turn off a less damaged engine and stopped telling if this was a mistake from the pilots.
Tangled families, colleagues pilots stab the probe
The concerned families and pilots at Jeju Air and other airlines perceive the findings of investigation, saying that the authorities should open the voice recorder of the pilot cabin and the flight recorder.
“We, 6500 pilots at Civilial Airlines, cannot restrain our boiling anger against the ridiculous argument of the Council to investigate aviation and railway accidents that lost neutrality,” a statement from the Korean pilot alliance alliance in a statement on Tuesday.
The United Jeju Air pilots also issued a statement calling for authorities to present scientific evidence to show that the aircraft must have landed normally if it was flying with a less damaged engine.
The latter report focuses only on engine problems and did not mention other factors that can also be accused of crash. Among them is the concrete structure in which the plane crashed. It housed a set of antennas called locals designed to run the aircraft safely during landing, and many analysts say that it should have been made with easier destruction. Some pilots say they suspect that the government would not mainly want to accuse the localizers or a bird stroke for a mass death, as the Muan airport is directly directly reached by the Ministry of Transport.
The Council for the Investigation of Aviation and Railway accidents and the Ministry of Transport do not propose a public response to criticism. They said they would also not publicly discuss the engine investigation to comply with the requests of the victims’ families.
A person familiar with the investigation told the AP that authorities were considering localizers and other problems, such as whether air traffic controllers transfer the risk of birds to hit pilots quickly enough and what an emergency workout Jeju Air offers pilots. The person who requested anonymity, citing the sensitive nature of the investigation, said the authorities were planning to publish the results of the surveys earlier after reviewing various problems, but changed the plan and tried to release the result of the engine investigation at the request of families from the victim. He said the authorities did not intend to take responsibility for the disaster to the pilots.
Authorities aim to publish the final results of the investigation until next June, the person said.
Kwon Bo Hun, Dean of Aeronautics College at the University of Far East in South Korea, called the report on the investigation of the engine “clumsy” because it did not reveal evidence that supported its pilot finding. He said it was annoyed “emotional parts of us” as the investigation triggered suspicion of putting all the blame on dead pilots.
A former professor, turned into the Ministry of Transport, reached by the AP, said the engine investigation report should be “reliable” as it is based on an analysis of cabins for voice cabins and records of flight data that “do not lie”. He speaks on condition of anonymity, citing the delicate nature of the problem.