Fireplace and smoke rise from the tail part of a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 collection plane after the airplane 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 skilled, advised {that a} hen strike was unlikely to have been the reason for the tragedy.
Clifford is presently the lead counsel in authorized instances in federal district courtroom in Chicago in opposition to Boeing for members of the family 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 hen strike is unlikely to have interfered with the deployment of the touchdown gear,” stated Clifford.
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“This airplane seems to have skilled a mechanical downside. … Analysis of the digital flight knowledge and cockpit recorders is important to understanding precisely what occurred.”
Hydraulic system
The aviation authorized skilled famous {that a} lack of energy to 1 or each engines attributable to hen strikes wouldn’t usually lower the hydraulics, stressing that info from the digital flight knowledge recorder and cockpit recorder will likely be vital to understanding what precipitated the crash.
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“The airplane could not have had functioning hydraulic methods, so it’s vital to grasp whether or not that in truth is right,” he stated.
“That ought to not have occurred with a hen strike. If there was a flaw within the hydraulic system, then that may be a serious challenge for the aviation business not simply in South Korea, but additionally around the globe.”
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Clifford has represented these injured or killed in quite a few main industrial airline crashes within the US over the past 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 will likely be wrongful loss of life claims made underneath relevant legal guidelines in South Korea until there may be some type of case in opposition to Boeing or another American producer that made a number of of the plane’s elements,” stated Clifford.
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“Of their South Korean case, Boeing retains pointing to the hen strike challenge. If they are saying it usually sufficient, perhaps individuals will suppose that the one factor concerned here’s a hen strike. It’s normal follow for his or her public relations crew to shift the main focus 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,” stated Clifford.
“It’s too quickly to inform whether or not there may be any compensation that may be sought in opposition to Boeing or different makers of part elements. I urge the households to heed correct authorized recommendation early and to maintain following it.”
In keeping with the Worldwide Civil Aviation Group’s Annex 13 that lays out requirements and really useful practices in regard to plane accidents and incidents investigation, a preliminary report of an accident needs to be issued inside 30 days of the occasion, whereas a ultimate report needs to be issued inside a 12 months of the occasion, following completion of the investigation.
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