The fatal Jeju Air flight 7C2216 resulted in the death of 179 people and already investigators are trying to provide answers as to the reasons that led to the downing of the aircraft in .
South Korean authorities announced today that they are being used in the country, after 179 people died in the crash of a passenger plane of this type immediately after its forced landing yesterday in the city of Muan.
A total of “101 Boeing 737-800 aircraft are currently in use in South Korea” and “we are considering options to conduct special inspections” regarding their safety, Joo Jong-wan, an official in charge of the aviation sector at the ministry, told reporters. Transportation in the Asian country.
How were the two crew members saved?
Using the video that has been made public from the accident, but also from the evidence that exists experts from all over the world are trying to provide answers to the many questions that exist.
Analysts pointed out that the two survivors were quite lucky. As can be seen in the related graph, the tail of the plane was cut off just before the place where the two crew members were sitting at the time of the collision. This is what also saved the lives of the two sole survivors of the accident.
The last 17 seconds of the flight
The videos that exist show the last 17 seconds of the fatal flight. By studying the frames, experts conclude that none of the plane’s landing gear worked.
After sending out a bird strike distress signal at 8:59 a.m., the plane turned around and requested clearance to land from the opposite end of the airport’s only runway. The airplane contacted the runway approximately 1,200 meters into the 2,800 meter total runway.
The airplane then belly-landed and skidded to a stop, before finally striking the instrument landing system (ILS) on an elevated concrete embankment.
“The end of the runway and the ILS ramp were at least 250 meters apart, according to safety regulations,” Muan airport authorities said.
One of the 2 survivors of Flight is 33-year-old flight attendant Lee Mo.
Lee was sitting in the back of the plane and remembers touching down, but nothing after that.
When he arrived at the hospital, he asked: “What happened?” – Yonhap
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The questions about the landing gear and the collision with a flock of birds
Both the wheels and the flaps seem not to have activated. Phaedon Karaiosifidis, an aeronautical engineer and investigator of air accidents, spoke on the morning show “Society Hour MEGA” about the plane crash and the fact that the braking system did not go down and about the wall on the runway.
“It wasn’t just the landing gear that didn’t come down. If you notice, on the plane and other things had not come down. They didn’t have all those control surfaces that help the plane land down so that it has very little speed when it hits the runway,” he said.
“Here we have a plane landing on its ‘belly’. Once the plane hits the runway – and I’ll tell you later about the fact that it hits late – without wheels, it has no braking, no control, no turning or control, so it just slides down the runway. In this case it ends 300 meters past the edge of the runway and then ends at the “wall”. What we see is not a wall. The wall is next. Right there is a mound which was above a concrete structure which had about 60-70 points of wall thickness, it was like a “shelter”. This thing cannot be explained,” he said.
