Relatives of Jeju Air Crash victims enter criminal charges

Almost five months after a Jeju flight aircraft on December 29th at the South Korean International Airport in a fatal fireball in the South Korean international airport and had killed 179 people, dozens of family members submitted a criminal complaint against 15 civil servants in the government and the aviation industry.

On Tuesday, 72 relatives of victims submitted the complaint to the police authority Jeolam, accused them of negligence and, according to a statement by lawyers, who represented the families.

Among those who were specifically in the complaint included Kim E-Bae, CEO of Jeju Air, the Minister of Transport of the State, Park Sang-Woo and airport operator at Muan International Airport. In the complaint, it is said to have been professionally negligent and to have violated the law on serious accidents and the law on security security of aviation.

The families believe that “the disaster was not an easy accident, but a serious civil disaster caused by negligence in reducing risks,” said the explanation.

The Korean Airports Corporation, the state -owned company that operates most airports in South Korea, including the Muan, and the Ministry of Transport rejected an opinion. Jeju Air did not immediately answer a request for a comment.

In the complaint, the family members also questioned the sharp pivot point that the pilot tried to land before trying to land, as well as the motor expectation of the aircraft, and why flight recorder from flight 2216 no longer worked four minutes before the crash.

While the official cause of the crash of investigators was not announced, the New York Times investigations showed that air officials had been warned of the dangers of bird strikes for a long time and that the crash may have been less fatal if the concrete wall at the end of the runway was made of a peaceful material, since it is often at other airports.

“There was no progress in the four months since the catastrophe,” said Kim Da-Hye, one of the family members in the explanation. “I can't help but feel deep in trouble and despair.”

Since the crash, transport officers and airport runners have sworn to revise airport infrastructure and security measures, including the reconstruction of the concretation of the concrete, near the landingways at seven airports, the use of drones to detect bird activities near airports and expansion of maintenance crews that work for inexpensive airlines.

Officials from the International Airport of Muan, planning to reopen the airport in July after some of these new security protocols have been introduced.

The committee of inquiry for air traffic railways and investigators from the United States carry out an investigation of the cause of the accident.