Why South Korean Plane Crash-Jeju Air Pilot
LAGOS DECEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Jeju Air pilot told air traffic control the passenger plane had suffered a bird strike before it crashed while landing at an airport in South Korea, transport officials revealed on Monday.
Following the strike, the pilots declared mayday and signalled their intention to go around. But the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 belly-landed and skidded off the end of the runway at Muan International Airport, erupting in a fireball as it slammed into a wall.
All 175 passengers and four of the six crew on the Jeju Air flight 7C2216, arriving from Bangkok, were killed shortly after 9am local time (midnight GMT) on Sunday. Two flight attendants were pulled out alive and taken to hospital in stable conditions.
The control tower had warned the pilots that birds were spotted in the vicinity shortly before the strike occurred.
Officials are investigating what role the localiser antenna, located at the end of the runway to help in landing, played in the crash, including the embankment on which it was standing, transport ministry officials told a media briefing.
South Korea’s acting President Choi Sang-mok on Monday ordered an emergency safety inspection of the country’s entire airline operation system as investigators worked to identify victims and find out what caused the deadliest air disaster in the country.
“Even before the final results are out, we ask that officials transparently disclose the accident investigation process and promptly inform the bereaved families,” he said.
“As soon as the accident recovery is conducted, the transport ministry is requested to conduct an emergency safety inspection of the entire aircraft operation system to prevent recurrence of aircraft accidents.”
The transport ministry said authorities were considering whether to conduct a special inspection of all 101 Boeing 737-800 aircraft operated by South Korean airliners.
Investigators were examining the bird strike and weather conditions as possible factors in the crash. Experts said many questions remained, including why the plane, powered by two CFM 56-7B26 engines, appeared to be travelling so fast and why its landing gear did not appear to be down when it skidded down the runway and into a wall.
The crash killed mostly local residents who were returning from holidays in Thailand, while two Thai nationals also died.
On Monday morning, investigators were trying to identify some of the last remaining victims, as anguished families waited inside the Muan airport terminal.
Park Han-shin, who lost his brother in the crash, said he was told by authorities that his brother had been identified, but he has not been able to see his body.
Transportation ministry officials said the jet’s flight data recorder was recovered but appeared to have sustained some damage on the outside and it was not yet clear whether the data was sufficiently intact to be analysed.
The Telegraph
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