The Accident Management Headquarters of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (Director: Ha Dong-soo, Head of the Aviation Policy Office) explained the additional details of incident management in relation to the departure of a passenger plane from the runway of Korean Air at Cebu International Airport in the Philippines as follows.
◈ (Accident summary) On October 24, around 00:07 (Korea time, same below) Korean Air flight (KAL flight 631, Incheon 10.23, around 18:35 → Cebu, 11 crew members , 162 passengers) departed from Cebu Airport in the Philippines and departed the runway during landing
In close consultation with the Philippine Aviation Authority, we have received permission to operate a special flight * (flight KAL2633, B737-900, Incheon → Bohol) to support local passengers and participate in accident investigation around 5pm, and depart from Incheon airport around 5:20 pm I did.
* 3 accident investigators and 2 aviation safety inspectors boarded the same special flight
In addition, Jeju Air flight 2406 (Cebu → Incheon, 177 passengers), scheduled to depart around 00:00 today (October 24), is also expected to depart * soon.
* 177 passengers stayed at the hotel provided by the airline, 9 people came home waiting and 168 people boarded