Jeju Air, a low-cost airline in South Korea, was carrying 175 passengers and six crew members in the Boeing 737-800 when the incident occurred Sunday morning local time at Muan International Airport in Muan County, South Jeolla Province, roughly 180 miles south of Seoul.
Really bad and really odd stuff with this horrible crash. It appears the result of a long chain of bad judgment plus grossly incompetent airport construction.
HERE is a good 16-minute explanation with video and flight data.
That plane didn’t “veer” off the runway. For reasons as yet unknown, the pilot landed the plane straight down the runway, downwind, without flaps or slats, and with the landing gear still up, and floating in ground effect. Unable to slow down after touching down, the plane ran off the end of the runway and hit a landing navigation antenna array that should have been, but wasn’t, breakaway. Then it broke up and exploded into fire.
All this is clearly laid out in the video in my earlier comment.
Uncle Al, my son is a flight instructor, and he studies airplane crashes as if his life depends on it. Which it does. Here’s what he speculated:
“Don’t know how but seems like a hydraulic failure, also was a video of the plane with a puff of smoke from right engine. If right engine failed they would be down to two hydraulic pumps which would still be able to control the plane fine, so it must have been a different failure. They did a gear up no flaps landing…drag at minimum so they were super fast, probably around 140 to 160 knots. Also if one engine failed they probably didn’t use reversers due to asymmetric thrust, and they had no spoilers to break airflow.”
What are the odds a “safe and effective” vaccine was involved?
Who builds an airport with the ILS localizer antennas on a 10+ foot berm? That’s criminal negligence for a civil engineer here. Heck, the FAA wouldn’t even certify it for use.
I think Uncle Al’s video is correct… They rushed the checklists and failed to drop the gear for one reason or another. There may have been a reason to do so, but it points to training and CRM failures.
But the berm is unforgivable. Someone needs to go to jail for that.
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OK I already don’t trust anything that big that willfully defies gravity, but adding “low cost” to it kinda creeps me out further.
If it’s Boeing, I ain’t goeing.