Police raid Muan airport over deadly Jeju Air plane crash

Police on Thursday raided Muan International Airport, the office of Jeju Air and other locations over the airline's deadly crash that killed 179 people, as they stepped up their probe into the worst aviation disaster on the nation's soil, Report informs via Yonhap News Agency.

The Jeonnam Provincial Police conducted search and seizure operations at the airport in southwest South Korea, the Seoul office of Jeju Air and the Muan office of the Busan Regional Office of Aviation, officials said.

The search warrant was issued on charges of professional negligence resulting in death, officials said.

Police are securing evidence related to the legitimacy of the airport's localizer, a concrete wall housing an antenna array located near the runway at the time, and the communication record between the control tower and the pilot shortly before the plane crash.

On Sunday, the Jeju Air passenger jet from Bangkok crashed into the outer wall of Muan International Airport during a belly landing, leaving 179 of the 181 people on board dead.