It turned out that Korean Air's passenger plane flew to Japan from Incheon International Airport without knowing that the aircraft had been damaged in a collision before takeoff.

Korean Air made a false report to the authorities even after grasping it afterwards, and Incheon International Airport Corporation (Inguk) did not even report it.

The Auditor today released the'Incheon International Airport Corporation Institutional Audit Report' containing this information.

According to the report, in April 2018, a Korean Air passenger plane from Incheon Airport to Osaka collided with a boarding bridge before takeoff, and the engine intake cover of the aircraft was damaged, but it operated to its destination.

Only after arriving in Japan, Korean Air discovered that some of the aircraft had been damaged and requested Incheon Airport to recognize the crash.

However, Korean Air reported that the incident occurred after arriving in Japan, and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport did not even report it to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.

In addition to this incident from 2017 to 2018, the Auditor pointed out that despite the 9 incidents of compulsory reporting and aviation safety obstacles, including inadvertent entry due to the induction of aircraft at Incheon International Airport, human resources and related airlines did not report it to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.

The Auditor asked the President of the Republic of Korea to pay attention, and to the Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, after investigating nine missing reports, notifying them to take measures such as imposing fines or fines.

In addition, he pointed out that there is a concern that Inguk Engineering will raise the parking fee unfairly to give the parking agency a privilege of 2 billion won.

In March 2018, A agency, a parking agency, requested an increase in parking agency charges of 144 billion won a year due to an increase in the minimum wage, etc., and Ingukgong asked for parking agency fees from 15,000 won in June last year. It increased by about 33% to 20,000 won.

However, according to the contract, the condition for the increase in the parking fee should be at least 15% of the annual increase in the consumer price index from 2017. The cumulative increase in the consumer price index by June of last year was only 4.0%.

As a result of the increase in parking agency fees, he pointed out that there is a possibility of providing 2 billion won in preference to the existing contract from Company A from January 2019 to January next year, when the contract is over.

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