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Wed, January 20, 2021 | 13:17
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Sewol carried more than double permitted amount of cargo
특조위 "세월호, 승인 적재량보다 화물 1천여톤 초과 적재"
Posted : 2016-06-28 16:49
Updated : 2016-06-28 22:01
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By Kim Se-jeong

The Sewol ferry, which capsized off Korea's southwestern coast on April 16, 2014, was loaded with 2,215 tons of cargo, more than double the amount the ferry was permitted to transport, an independent committee looking into the case announced Monday.

Overloading has been considered one of the major factors that made the ferry list before capsizing in the water off Jindo, an island near the southwestern coast. The overloaded cargo included steel bars to be used in the construction of a controversial naval base on Jeju Island, the committee said.

According to the Special Investigation Commission on the 4/16 Sewol Ferry Disaster, the cargo limit for the 6,835-ton passenger ship was 987 tons.

But it estimated that the actual cargo on the day of the accident weighed 2,215 tons, including 920 tons of trucks, cars and heavy equipment, 131 tons of containers and 1,164 tons of general goods. The commission reached these figures after reviewing the ferry's surveillance camera recordings and interviewing clients shipping cargo on the ferry.

"It raises the necessity to review the conditions of the ferry on departure," the commission said in its report. "We need to recalculate the weight of cargo and passengers and how this impacted the ferry before it capsized."

The commission also mentioned 405 tons of the cargo was steel bars for the construction of the naval base, significantly more than the 286 tons the prosecution's earlier investigation announced.

The finding fits in aggravating suspicions that the National Intelligence Service was the actual owner of the passenger ferry and it departed from Incheon despite bad weather to deliver the steel bars to the government-led naval base construction site.

Korea's worst maritime disaster claimed 295 out of 476 lives aboard the ferry, with an additional nine bodies yet to be recovered.

Salvage of the sunken ferry began last year, but progress has been delayed due to bad weather.

The independent commission is also in conflict with the government over the deadline for the investigation. The government argues that the investigation must be concluded at the end of this month because the special act on the ferry disaster, which took effect Jan. 1, 2015, called for an 18-month investigation. But the commission says it only became capable of carrying out the investigation last August when the necessary manpower and budget were allocated.


특조위 "세월호, 승인 적재량보다 화물 1천여톤 초과 적재"

이정현 의원·길환영 전 KBS사장 등 2명 고발 조치하기로

4·16 세월호 참사 특별조사위원회는 침몰사고 당일 세월호가 승인된 화물 적재량의 두 배 이상을 싣고 출항한 것으로 확인됐다고 27일 밝혔다.

특조위는 이날 특조위 대회의실에서 전원위원회의를 열고 이러한 내용이 담긴 '세월호 도입 후 침몰까지 모든 항해 시 화물량 및 무게에 관한 조사의 건' 보고서를 채택했다.

이 보고서는 특조위가 채택한 첫 번째 진상규명조사 보고서다.

세월호 선내 폐쇄회로(CC)TV 영상 등을 토대로 작성된 보고서 내용을 보면 출항할 때 세월호에 실린 화물은 총 2천215톤이다.

최대 987톤의 화물 적재를 승인받은 세월호에 1천228톤의 화물이 더 실린 셈이다.

특조위는 세월호 화물중에 제주 해군기지로 운반되는 철근이 있었다는 박주민 의원(더불어민주당) 주장과 관련, '410톤의 철근이 실려 있었으며, 이중 일부가 제주 해군기지로 가는 것으로 확인됐다'며 '검경 합동수사본부가 파악한 286톤은 124톤을 누락한 수치'라고 주장했다.

이에 대해 국방부 관계자는 연합뉴스와의 통화에서 '제주해군기지를 건설하는 업체 간에 이뤄진 일이기 때문에 관련된 사안을 확인하기가 어렵다'고 해명했다.

특조위 권영빈 진상규명소위원장은 '이번 조사결과를 바탕으로 세월호가 전복된 시점과 원인은 물론 화물의 적재 위치와 고박 상태가 사고에 어떤 영향을 미쳤는지 규명해야 한다'고 말했다.

한편 특조위는 현역 국회의원 1명을 포함해 2명을 방송법 위반 혐의로 검찰에 고발하기로 했다.

특조위는 조사대상자의 신원을 공개할 수 없다고 했지만 고발 대상은 새누리당 이정현 의원과 길환영 전 KBS 사장인 것으로 알려졌다.

특조위는 두 사람이 세월호 사고 당시 일부 방송보도에 간섭했다고 판단한 것으로 보인다.

특조위 관계자는 '누구든지 방송편성에 관하여 방송법 또는 타 법률에 의하지 아니하고는 어떤 규제나 간섭도 할 수 없다는 방송법 조항을 위반한 사실이 확인돼 고발키로 한 것'이라고 설명했다. (연합뉴스)
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