Hearth and smoke rise from the tail part of a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 sequence plane after the aircraft crashed and burst into flames at Muan Worldwide Airport in South Jeolla Province, some 288 kilometres southwest of Seoul on December 29, 2024. Agence France-Presse
As Korean and US authorities launched a joint probe on Tuesday into the crash of a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 at Muan Worldwide Airport in South Jeolla Province, which killed 179 passengers and crew, Robert Clifford, a Chicago-based aviation plaintiff trial professional, recommended {that a} fowl strike was unlikely to have been the reason for the tragedy.
Clifford is presently the lead counsel in authorized instances in federal district court docket in Chicago towards Boeing for relations of a Boeing 737 Max that crashed in 2019 in Ethiopia, killing all 149 passengers and eight crew members on board. The Boeing 737-800, which was the mannequin that crashed on the airport in Muan on Sunday, is the precursor to the US plane producer’s 737 Max.
“A fowl strike is unlikely to have interfered with the deployment of the touchdown gear,” mentioned Clifford.
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“This aircraft seems to have skilled a mechanical downside. … Analysis of the digital flight knowledge and cockpit recorders is crucial to figuring out precisely what occurred.”
Hydraulic system
The aviation authorized professional famous {that a} lack of energy to at least one or each engines attributable to fowl strikes wouldn’t usually lower the hydraulics, stressing that data from the digital flight knowledge recorder and cockpit recorder might be important to understanding what brought about the crash.
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“The aircraft could not have had functioning hydraulic programs, so it’s important to know whether or not that in reality is right,” he mentioned.
“That ought to not have occurred with a fowl strike. If there was a flaw within the hydraulic system, then that will be a significant problem for the aviation business not simply in South Korea, but additionally all over the world.”
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Clifford has represented these injured or killed in quite a few main industrial airline crashes within the US during the last 4 many years, together with the American Airways crash at Chicago O’Hare Worldwide Airport in 1979, the United Airways DC-10 crash in Sioux Metropolis, Iowa, in 1989, the Comair runway crash in Lexington, Kentucky, in 2006 and the Continental Colgan crash of 2009 in Buffalo, New York.
“There might be wrongful demise claims made below relevant legal guidelines in South Korea until there may be some form of case towards Boeing or another American producer that made a number of of the plane’s elements,” mentioned Clifford.
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“Of their South Korean case, Boeing retains pointing to the fowl strike problem. If they are saying it typically sufficient, perhaps folks will suppose that the one factor concerned here’s a fowl strike. It’s customary observe for his or her public relations group to shift the main target away from Boeing.”
Horrible catastrophe
Calling for diligence, he emphasised that investigators ought to keep targeted on the digital flight knowledge recorder and cockpit voice recorder to determine what went improper and the way the tragedy occurred.
“The households of the victims of this horrible catastrophe ought to search native recommendation on the authorized points,” mentioned Clifford.
“It’s too quickly to inform whether or not there may be any compensation that may be sought towards Boeing or different makers of part elements. I urge the households to heed correct authorized recommendation early and to maintain following it.”
In line with the Worldwide Civil Aviation Group’s Annex 13 that lays out requirements and advisable practices in regard to plane accidents and incidents investigation, a preliminary report of an accident ought to be issued inside 30 days of the occasion, whereas a remaining report ought to be issued inside a yr of the occasion, following completion of the investigation.
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