The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport is conducting joint disaster response training with relevant agencies to prepare for complex disasters, including failures in aviation control facilities and vehicle inspection and qualification examination systems.
On the 21st, the ministry announced that it will carry out digital disaster response training and the '2026 Disaster Response Safety Korea Training' in collaboration with the Korea Transportation Safety Authority (TS) and the Korea Airports Corporation over two days, from the 21st to the 22nd.
The training will begin at 2 p.m. on the 21st at the TS headquarters, simulating a scenario where core information systems are incapacitated due to wildfires and power outages. Approximately 60 officials from the ministry and TS will participate.
The exercise will assume a situation where power lines are severed by wildfires, leading to a blackout, and a fire occurs in the communications room due to an overload of emergency generators, causing simultaneous failures of the vehicle inspection management system and the national qualification examination management system.
The ministry plans to assess essential service maintenance strategies, including manual processing of vehicle inspection tasks, operating alternative windows for national qualification examination candidates, and system recovery using backup data.
On the 22nd, a disaster response safety training exercise will take place at Gimhae Airport, focusing on aviation control facility failures and aircraft accidents. About 300 participants from 22 agencies, including the ministry, the Busan Regional Aviation Administration, the Korea Airports Corporation, airlines, and fire departments, will be involved.
The training will simulate a complex disaster scenario where multiple failures occur in the primary and backup systems of the Gimhae Airport approach control facility under adverse weather conditions, leading to a suspension of control services and subsequent aircraft accidents. The ministry plans to evaluate the issuance of crisis alerts, activation of the accident response headquarters, emergency control measures, and the joint response system among relevant agencies.
The ministry intends to incorporate any identified shortcomings from the training into relevant manuals and response systems.
Jeong Chae-gyo, head of the ministry's Aviation Policy Office, stated, "Aviation safety facilities are critical national infrastructure that supports the safe operation of aircraft, and prompt and systematic responses are crucial in the event of a failure. We aim to strengthen our practical response capabilities through this training."
* This article has been translated by AI.
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