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An probe into past December's Jeju Air level clang has recovered that the aircraft's aviator mistakenly unopen the incorrect engine, section media reported.
The merchandise of the report, scheduled for implicit the weekend, has been delayed aft heated protests from families of the victims.
The families had been briefed connected the findings earlier, and accused investigators of pinning the blasted connected the aviator portion ignoring different contributing factors.
All but 2 of the 181 radical connected committee the Jeju Air level died aft the craft crashed into a obstruction and burst into flames portion landing astatine Muan International Airport - the deadliest level clang connected South Korean soil.
On the greeting of 29 December, the pilots of Jeju Air Flight 2216 reported a vertebrate onslaught and made a mayday telephone arsenic the level approached the runway.
The pilots past tried to onshore from the other direction. Video footage showed the level making a belly landing - without its landing cogwheel deployed - connected the tarmac and skidding into a factual barrier.
The aircraft's 2 engines were sent to France successful March for analysis. The caller findings from South Korea's Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Board recovered that the aviator had turned disconnected the near motor - which had nary defects - alternatively of the close engine, which was much severely damaged by the vertebrate strike.
However, families of the victims said that the study did not notation the factual obstruction astatine the extremity of the runway, which they argued is what made the mishap truthful devastating.
"The bereaved families question a just and transparent probe into the accident," they said successful a statement, urging investigators to behaviour a property briefing "only aft a afloat and cautious introspection has been completed".
In a connection connected Sunday, the Jeju Air pilots' national likewise criticised the caller findings for allegedly focusing connected pilots' misjudgement portion downplaying different contributing factors.
A root with cognition of the probe, however, told Reuters that investigators would not alteration their findings arsenic they had "clear grounds and backup data".
Following the crash, South Korea's transport ministry said successful January that it would region factual barriers astatine 7 airports.
In May, families of the victims lodged a transgression ailment against Jeju Air CEO Kim E-bae, citing nonrecreational negligence. Mr Kim is among 24 radical being investigated by the constabulary implicit their relation successful the accident.
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