South Korea Plans Safety Changes After Deadly Plane Crash.
South Korea will install bird-watching tools at all its airports by 2026. The move comes after a plane crash killed 179 people last December.
People looking into the crash found bird parts and blood on the plane's engines. The Boeing 737-800 hit birds before it went down.
The crash was the worst ever in South Korea. Studies keep going on what made the plane crash. They look at both the bird hit and a hard wall near the landing strip that the plane hit.
Experts say the new tools will help make flying safer. The machines can see birds and tell air guides where they are. Each airport must add heat cameras, which can spot birds at night.
Only four South Korean airports have heat cameras right now, and no one knows if any have bird-finding tools yet.
The land near airports must change. Places that attract birds, like trash areas, need to be removed.
South Korea said it would make seven airports safer last month. They checked all airports after the crash.
What made the plane crash still stays dark. But air safety experts said fewer people might have died if the wall had not been there.
The plane left Bangkok on December 29. It went toward Muan Airport in South West Korea.
Air guides told the pilots to watch for birds three minutes after they talked first. Two minutes later, the pilots said a bird hit them, so they asked for help right away.
The plane tried to land differently. It came down on its belly. Then, it ran off the landing strip and hit the wall, which caused it to blow up.
The black boxes stopped writing things down four minutes before the crash. These boxes tell what happens on planes.
The people on the plane were between three and 78 years old, most between 40 and 70. Of all the people there, only two air helpers lived.
The crash made South Korea think hard about air safety. These new plans show that they want to prevent such tragedies from happening again.
South Korea will install bird-watching tools at all its airports by 2026. The move comes after a plane crash killed 179 people last December.
People looking into the crash found bird parts and blood on the plane's engines. The Boeing 737-800 hit birds before it went down.
The crash was the worst ever in South Korea. Studies keep going on what made the plane crash. They look at both the bird hit and a hard wall near the landing strip that the plane hit.
Experts say the new tools will help make flying safer. The machines can see birds and tell air guides where they are. Each airport must add heat cameras, which can spot birds at night.
Only four South Korean airports have heat cameras right now, and no one knows if any have bird-finding tools yet.
The land near airports must change. Places that attract birds, like trash areas, need to be removed.
South Korea said it would make seven airports safer last month. They checked all airports after the crash.
What made the plane crash still stays dark. But air safety experts said fewer people might have died if the wall had not been there.
The plane left Bangkok on December 29. It went toward Muan Airport in South West Korea.
Air guides told the pilots to watch for birds three minutes after they talked first. Two minutes later, the pilots said a bird hit them, so they asked for help right away.
The plane tried to land differently. It came down on its belly. Then, it ran off the landing strip and hit the wall, which caused it to blow up.
The black boxes stopped writing things down four minutes before the crash. These boxes tell what happens on planes.
The people on the plane were between three and 78 years old, most between 40 and 70. Of all the people there, only two air helpers lived.
The crash made South Korea think hard about air safety. These new plans show that they want to prevent such tragedies from happening again.
