avweb2

Tragedy on top of tragedy. Clearly it’s impressive when people take responsibility, but not sure we move forward if people feel like when they are blamed they need to take their own lives. This man probably didn’t single-handedly decide that this barrier should be concrete with the knowledge that it was putting aircraft at risk. Better to work together to learn from our mistakes and put in place processes that prevent it from happening again.

Imagine if this man had, instead of ending it all, devoted the rest of his life to working with other airport authorities and international organizations to improving airport safety?

Impossible to know what he was thinking, but it does seem like a waste.

RtrdCtrlr

In the Korean culture, would he have been allowed to do that? I do not know.

mambopooch

Very sad all the way around.Condolences to the family and friends of those killed by this tragic incident.

Will_Alibrandi

Very sad, but this sounds like a cultural thing where he may have felt he lost face and held himself accountable. My home field had a similar accident back in 1994 when a Navajo hit the blast fence after the pilot landed long on a foggy night and didn’t have the room to go around; eight fatalities resulted. It took the airport twenty years to remove the fence and put in an EMAS system at the end of that runway; the town fought them tooth & nail until an agreement was reached.