S Korea orders airports to install bird detection cameras after air accidents | Aviation News

The Ministry of Earth aims to install at least one camera in each of 15 domestic airports after a deadly air accident in December.

The South Korean Government ordered all its airports to install bird and radar chambers in response to The worst aviation disaster of the country In December.

The new plans were announced on Thursday by the Ministry of Earth, Infrastructure and Transport as part of a national special airport safety check – together with a complete survey of facilities that particularly attract birds.

Thehe Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 He flew from Thailand to Muan to the southwest of South Korea on December 29, wearing 181 passengers and a crew when he descended his belly at Muan Airport and burst into a fiery ball after he stuck in a concrete barrier.

The crash left 179 people killed and only two survivors.

“All airports will be equipped with at least one heat camera,” the Ministry of Earth said, adding that it aims to begin unfolding next year.

Mobile sound devices will also be implemented mainly to deal with “medium and large birds”.

“Bird detection radars will be installed at all airports to improve the early opening of distant birds and to improve the reaction opportunities for aircraft,” the ministry added.

The radar will find the size of the bird and the path of its movement and this information will be transmitted to the air traffic controllers, which in turn will communicate with the pilot.

The ministry also said it “will create legal bases” to move facilities that attract birds – such as food waste and orchard treatment facilities – away from airports and impose new restrictions on the distance of new facilities.

“The main priority is to establish comprehensive reform measures throughout the aviation safety to prevent recurrence of aircraft accidents,” said Deputy Minister of Civil Aviation Joe Yong-Wan.

At present, only four airports in Inches, Gimpo, Gimhae and Jeju Island have thermal chambers for bird detection, according to the State Information Agency Yonhap.

With the plan, the government aims to install at least one camera on each of the 15 home airports, with orders starting in March.

At the time of Jeju's air accident, the pilot warned of a bird blow before getting out of the first landing attempt. The plane crashed at its second attempt when the landing did not appear.

Investigators in South Korea and the United States are still exploring the cause of the crash, which caused national mourning with memorials created throughout the country.

Feathers and duck DNAs have been found In both Jeju Air Flight engines, according to media reports in South Korea, a bird impact is investigated as a possible cause.

The crash investigation was further blurred when the Ministry of Transport said the black boxes that hold the flight data and voice recorders on the cockpit for the crash flight stopped recording four minutes before the disasterS