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We'll look into whether there are any conflicts in our own regulations, and conduct an additional review of our airport safety standards,
Kim Hong-rak, director general for airport and air navigation facilities policy, told a briefing A bird strike on an engine might shut an engine down, but there's so many redundant systems there, it just doesn't make sense. We're not in the dark, but we know the runway is 9,200 feet. It's a very long runway. It [the plane] did come in hot and high, hot and fast. We don't know why that was the real issue,
aviation consultant Mike Boyd told Fox News Sunday My friend and his wife were on their retirement trip, and we even talked on the phone last week. We talked about going on a trip of our own soon,
Jeon tells Al Jazeera with a trembling voice She was the one who suggested our trip to Yeosu this past summer and to Daecheon in the fall. She took care of our ill father during his last days. We took courage from her,
he says, before walking away, overcome with emotion It’s sad to see that my friend is not next to his wife on the altar,
We don’t have any blood relations [among the victims], but I consider everyone who was on that flight as my family. Especially for people like me who went through times of brutal political oppression in the 1980s, we feel a deep bond to cities in this part of the region,
he says, mentioning the Gwangju massacre, in which hundreds of lives were known to be taken by the military, which was in power at the time I used to always kick around a soccer ball when I was young, and my uncle would visit our home often to see us. He was the only adult during our family gatherings to come play with the kids,
I believe in an afterlife, so I wish all the victims peace in their next journeys,
We even got married around the same time, so our families often met and went on trips together. He was gentle and quiet, but he always looked out for others like a big brother,
Just a day before my sister left on her trip, she visited our mother’s home in Gwangju to give her Christmas presents,
remembers a middle-aged man getting fresh air outside the airport, who lost his sister and brother-in-law in the crash It's just uncomfortable that you would put a concrete barrier, because what that does is that guarantees destruction and death to the occupants of an airplane that's going to hit,
A big question is why the pilot was in such a hurry to land.
Hwang Ho-won, chairman of the Korea Association for Aviation Security, told DNYUZ I flew 737s for 10 years as a captain, and I can say that the landing gear can be manually deployed, so the real question will be, what set up the sequence of events here?
Robert Sumwalt, the former NTSB chair, told CBS News I just cannot think of anything more irresponsible than what (South Korea aviation officials) have done,
said Shawn Pruchnicki, an assistant professor in the college of engineering at Ohio State University I think the cockpit voice recorder, if they're able to read that out, that will be key to unlocking this mystery,
Robert Sumwalt, former chair of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, told Can you promise that they will be put back together?"
One heartbroken man at the scene asked police There is an international code that governs the design of airports to keep them safe
Now we are really getting into James Bond territory.
Though as Mr Bray puts it The last dignities of the victims are seriously hurt. We strongly criticize authorities for failing to keep its promise,
These are really the two pillars for accident analysis and accident reconstruction,
