2 days Ago By [email protected](KoreaTimes)
Police enter an elevator after conducting a search and seizure operation at Muan International Airport in southwest Korea on Jan. 2. Yonhap Police have raided Muan International Airport for the second day Friday over the deadly Jeju Air plane crash that killed 179 people.
The Jeonnam Provincial Police were conducting search and seizure operations at the airport's office in southwest Korea as of early Friday to secure materials related to the plane crash. Police also sent about 30 investigators to search the Seoul office of Jeju Air and the Muan office of the Busan Regional Office of Aviation at 9 a.m.
Thursday, before they completed the operation at 2 p.m. and 7 p.
m. the same day, respectively. Police were securing evidence related to the legitimacy of the airport's localizer, a concrete wall housing an antenna array located near the runway at the time, and the communication record between the control tower and the pilot shortly before the plane crash.
They are also looking to secure the surveillance camera near the runway, and records related to the operation and maintenance of the aircraft in question. The search warrant was issued on charges of professional negligence resulting in death, officials said. (Yonhap).
