[Scene video +] "The most important thing is to recover the recording device completely".

[Anchor]
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport is conducting a briefing on the Jeju Air plane crash.

Let's go to the site of the Sejong Government Complex.

[Interview]
Regarding this accident, the situation of handling the accident as of 18:30 is as follows. First of all, the aircraft was burned down, and casualties were 181 passengers and 175 passengers, including two Thai nationals. And it includes six crew members. Among them, 177 were confirmed dead, two injured, and two missing. This is the status of the structure.

Two cabin crew members were rescued and transferred to one Seoul National University Hospital and one Seoul Asan Medical Center. It's the place where the victim rests. We are in a temporary morgue installed at Muan Airport. The identified victim will be transferred outside in consultation with the bereaved family. It's an accident investigation. Eight airline high-altitude officers and nine aviation safety supervisors arrived at the accident site and are collecting on-site evidence, including the collection of air logs for the tower. This is a collaboration with related organizations.

I would like to tell you that 490 firefighters, 455 police officers, 340 military personnel, and 1,572 officials, including the Coast Guard and local governments, are dealing with the accident at the scene. Lastly, it is the regional accident management headquarters. A regional accident management headquarters, headed by the head of the Busan Regional Aviation Administration, is being established and operated at the site. We are making every effort to support the bereaved families by supporting the bereaved families, operating counseling rooms, matching the list of victims and their families, and visiting the accident site representative of the bereaved families. That's about it.

[Reporter]
Please explain in detail the investigation and procedure that the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport will conduct in the future.

[Interview]
Regarding the investigation into the cause of the accident, we collected two black boxes, flight recorders, and audio devices that we mentioned earlier, and we plan to collect additional parts of the remains and start a thorough investigation. The Aviation Railroad Accident Investigation Committee plans to carefully review the contents and reveal the causes of the accident.

[Reporter]
It's gotten a lot darker today. I wonder how long you'll be doing it until the time to continue the investigation. I was wondering if you investigate it directly from the site or move it somewhere else.

[Interview]
Time has this plan that the government will rescue even the last person. In addition to the 1572 people I mentioned earlier, several related organizations are also on the site. So, we plan to do our best to deal with the accident at the site, and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport will review these contents such as the black box before, and I will analyze the communication between the control agency and the pilot in detail and go through the review process.

[Reporter]
If there is any progress in the investigation of the cause of the accident, please let me know the updated information. And I wonder how the two of you are injured. And I asked you later, please tell me whether the direction of the aircraft wind was reverse or forward.

[Interview]
As for the cause of the accident, as I told you earlier, the black box has been collected and we are collecting the remaining debris from some of the aircraft, so we will start the analysis process as soon as it is collected and we plan to check the results. And as soon as the results of the investigation come out, I will tell you through a briefing. And those who are injured are being transferred, and we will check their condition separately and let you know.

And the last question you asked was... the wind direction. We checked the weather conditions and found that the wind direction was 2 knots in the 110 degree direction, 9 km in the city, 4500 feet in the cloud, and the temperature was 2 degrees Celsius.

[Interview]
Since the wind blowing from 110 degrees is 2 knots, it is a wind that can be used on both sides of the runway for aircraft operation. In terms of aircraft, since it is one nine, it comes in from 110 degrees relative to 190 degrees, so it's a little reverse, but this wind strength is very breeze, so it was a condition that both runways could be used.

[Reporter]
After failing to land once earlier, the plane had to turn far away when going around the runway on the other side, but because there was a problem with the engine, it couldn't go far and went close and landed in the middle of the runway.

[Interview]
We will check the navigation data, that is, the navigation data that the plane actually moved, and tell you.

[Reporter]
When I was briefing earlier, you said that the plane should come around far away, but you couldn't. Is that right, then?

[Interview]
We'll look at the navigation data and tell you again about that angle and that.

[Reporter]
As far as I know, more than 1,600 bird collisions have occurred in Korea over five years. I'm curious about this part of how this incident differs from the usual bird collision. I'm wondering if there's actually been a recent case of fuselage landing. And finally, if you look at the video of the accident, it was definitely fine until after the fuselage landing, but after the collision, there was a big fire. So, in fact, the outer wall alleviated the impact, so what should I say in general? The explanation seems to be correct, but the impact of the accident on the outer wall itself has not been mitigated. Can I see it like this?

[Interview]
As you mentioned earlier, there is a situation in which each airport does various preventive activities to avoid bird collisions and nevertheless encounters some birds. However, we don't have any cases where a major accident occurred in relation to an aircraft accident. As I told you earlier, we will investigate additionally whether the cause of this accident was a bird collision, another cause, or a complex cause and tell you that it will be revealed in the process. And the fuselage landing situation.

[Interview]
In the case of our national flag, we didn't have it recently. There was a case of a fuselage landing at Daegu Airport once in the early 1990s. But I don't have one recently.

[Reporter]
As far as I know, the aircraft of the accident was scheduled to arrive at 8:30 p.m. The landing permit is 8:54 now, but the flight has been delayed more than usual.

[Interview]
First of all, in the case of international flights, they may arrive a little later than the expected arrival time or a little earlier. But we're planning to take a look at how there was a flow right before that.

[Reporter]
Despite the bird strike warning at around 8:57 p.m., it seems that the accident occurred because the landing was carried out despite the bird strike.

[Interview]
We'll do our research and tell you. As I said before, it would be better for us to take a closer look at various black boxes and track records and tell you.

[Reporter]
It seems that the aircraft left Gwangju Airport about an hour late, but has this also been confirmed? And may I ask why you left so late?

[Interview]
We will check the delayed departure from the local airport. There is some information that it left a little late, but we will check the exact time and time of takeoff.

[Reporter]
The control tower said the view was fine...

[Interview]
As I told you earlier, we're going to interview the actual controller to find out what kind of visual problems there were at the time.

[Reporter]
In the case of communication between the passenger plane and the control tower just before the accident, I think it will remain in the control tower, so I ask if you have checked it and if you want to disclose the information.

[Interview]
Earlier, we gave an overview of each time period attached to the data, but this is actually what we organized based on the communication between the controller and the pilot. For more specific details, we plan to check and organize additional data.

[Reporter]
There are reports that there were no personnel in charge of preventing bird strikes at Muan Airport, but I would like to ask if the facts are correct and if there is an airport manual on bird activities.

[Interview]
First of all, four people were working. 1 person working in the field . . . A total of 4 people were working and 1 person was currently working outdoors. However, as I said in the previous briefing, we need to check the specific activities and whether the facility is operating at that time.

[Reporter]
Can I ask you again exactly how old are the surviving crew members?

[Interview]
We will check the age of the rescued crew right away and tell you again.

[Interview]
Earlier, bird activity prevention personnel, one person was moving in three shifts at the site. Please understand that on the spot.

[Reporter]
Have you heard about the report that there is a risk of algae in the Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment Report? And what do you think about those concerns? Also, please check whether this is the worst accident in Korea in terms of the scale of damage and this.

[Interview]
We will check the contents of the strategic environmental impact assessment report in detail. However, there was such a report that there was a risk of a bird collision, and various efforts to prevent a bird collision, such efforts are doing almost the same at each airport in Gimpo and Incheon. Therefore, such a point was raised in the Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment Report, and it can be considered that the process proceeds like this after actually operating the airport with supplementary measures and such supplementary measures.

[Reporter]
Please provide details on what kind of investigation you conducted. Have you conducted any investigations into controllers, etc., such as interviews?

[Interview]
First, let's check the situation of the on-site accident. We are focusing on securing on-site evidence. And I check all the aircraft maintenance records and failure records. Interviews with officials are also conducted in order, and the decisive clues to today's accident are too early. The most important thing is to fully recover the FDR, CVR flight recorder, and voice recorder, and you should go to the analysis room to check if it is intact. And you said earlier that the number of casualties was the largest, wasn't there a KAL007 shooting in 83? There are 269 people at that time, and we need to check the exact amount. Other than the terrorist accident, during the 1997 Korean Air Guam accident. I think it's the largest in Korea right now, but I'll check the exact record and let you know.

[Reporter]
Didn't you report on the condition of the aircraft when you declared Mayday?

[Interview]
Since it was such a short time, I understand that we don't communicate smoothly. I think the exact thing can be grasped only by checking FDR data and audio data.

[Reporter]
Then, what measures did the airport take after the accident after entering May Day?

[Interview]
Usually, Mayday declarations give the pilot the highest priority at the control tower. So we land on the runway to meet the pilot's requirements and prepare the necessary measures for the airport. It's always ready. According to the regulations, there is a system in which emergency dispatch is established for two or three minutes as close as possible in the event of an aircraft accident.

[Reporter]
Is it all fulfilled in this accident?

[Interview]
We will investigate and check all the exact data.

[Reporter]
The plane is a Boeing 737-800 and this model has been found to have air defects in the past, do you have any plans to investigate the accident with Boeing?

[Interview]
I don't think it's accurate right now about the fault record of the accident. We are also checking the recent failure records, but the exact details have not been confirmed yet, and of course, the manufacturer is the United States, so US authorities and manufacturers will participate in accordance with international regulations for accident investigation.

[Reporter]
So will Boeing's experts enter the country and participate in the investigation together?

[Interview]
Usually, it is supposed to conduct a joint investigation like that.

[Interview]
As for the follow-up situation, it seems that additional necessary consultation procedures with Boeing will be required.

[Reporter]
It is said that measures are taken to prevent fire from occurring in the event of a fuselage landing, but I would like to ask if this accident was too urgent to do that. When a fuselage landing is made, foam and things that prevent fire are sprayed on the runway, but it was said that there was no such thing in this accident.

[Interview]
We need to check whether the measures you mentioned were taken at the site, but since this accident occurred in a very short time, it should be considered that such measures have not been taken for sure.

[Interview]
Depending on the situation, we take measures on the spot. In the event of a sudden emergency, it is not usual because it is an urgent task to provide urgent support to the aircraft that has declared Mayday. We need to investigate more accurately later.

[Reporter]
In the second landing, it doesn't seem normal for a fuselage landing to not come in from the middle of the runway or from the end of the runway. In the briefing earlier, it was said that it was separate from landing gear and engine failure. There are statements that there were some signs even before the bird strike warning when the first landing attempt was made. Is there anything more specific about it?

[Interview]
We'll have to investigate the landing gear you just mentioned, the signs of problems before the bird strike, and where the aircraft landed on the runway.

[Interview]
We received a submission of the maintenance history for the aircraft from Jeju Air. We are checking if the procedures have been taken in accordance with the safety law regulations. As I told you earlier, I think we need to check the flight recorder. Since the communication details and black boxes are being collected earlier, we will check the details and tell you after grasping the detailed situations.

[Reporter]
I heard that there was an accident while returning in the reverse direction, not a normal situation, but it seems to have come down more urgently than normal. Can you confirm whether the control tower order was issued, the pilot's judgment, and whether it was done?

[Interview]
I think we need to know what the pilot's condition and the aircraft were like at the time to make a comprehensive judgment. Normally, it's right to go back to the entry direction and follow the long pole, but didn't you turn to the short side and return to runway 19? But how the pilot and controller made the judgment at that time, and what it was for, you have to make the judgment with accurate data.

[Reporter]
Is it right for the pilot to fly with full power when it's an emergency like that in a normal situation?

[Interview]
It depends on the situation. Most of the final decisions are made by pilots.

[Interview]
As you said earlier, I will analyze the communication between the controller and the pilot more and tell you again with the analysis results.