Singapore's Transport Minister assures that the country's Boeing 737-800 fleet is safe following a deadly crash in South Korea. He states that the fleet has been checked and no anomalies or reliability issues have been found. Singapore's airport runway infrastructure also differs from the South Korean airport where the crash occurred.
Checks by Singapore ’s authorities in the wake of the deadly Jeju Air crash in December have found no anomalies or reliability issues on the fleet of Boeing 737-800 aircraft here, said Transport Minister Chee Hong Tat on Wednesday (Jan 8). This is the same aircraft model as the plane that smashed into a concrete structure housing navigational equipment at the end of the runway at Muan International Airport in South Korea on Dec 29, 2024, killing 179 people on board.
Chee told Parliament that there are no such concrete structures near runways at Singapore’s airports. All air navigation equipment located near runways here are designed to break off in the event of a collision, he noted. The minister was responding to Ang Wei Neng (West Coast GRC), who had asked about the lessons that can be learnt from the crash of Jeju Air Flight 2216, and how Singapore is preparing itself to prevent a similar occurrence. Ang had originally filed a question about passenger volumes and capacity at Changi Airport, but later raised a question on the fatal incident - the worst aviation accident on South Korean soil. There were just two survivors. Chee said the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) is in touch with its South Korean counterpart, as well as the US Federal Aviation Administration and plane maker Boeing, about the crash. CAAS has also checked the maintenance of relevant systems on B737-800 planes here and found no issues, he said. “We convey our deepest condolences to the victims and their families... We will review and take the necessary preventive actions as more information about the incident becomes available,” he adde
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