Update: Footage of the crash aired by YTN television showed the Jeju Air plane skidding across the airstrip, apparently with its landing gear still closed, and colliding head-on with a concrete wall.
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Apparently this plane was in for maintenance 2 days prior for hydrolic issues. In addition, why were they sent to an airport with a short runway and barrier like that at the end of the runway? Lots of questions. Be interesting what the black boxes and investigation shows.
Does the gear position suggest pilot error or mechanical failure? I realize South Korea is located next to a country run by a psychopath, but there have to be safer security measures than concrete walls.
it seems like a pretty egregious error for a pilot and first officer to forget the landing gear, it's also usually part of a mandatory checklist. I've never heard of anything like that happening, I would say that's very unlikely though can't be completely ruled out without further investigation
Unless I'm missing something, the only alternative is mechanical failure. Would not some kind of warning gone off if the landing gear failed to deploy? I imagine sabotage is a possibility, but wouldn't that have required messing with the landing gear AND the warning lights?
I think it might be a crew resource management issue like what you said before after watching the video posted to this thread, maybe after the backfire that was caught on video before the go around the cabin was filling with smoke and people didn't follow protocol because they were in a panic
I was watching Blancolirio (Juan Brown) and he pointed out that the breakaway antennae at the end of the runway are supposed to be at ground level, not on top of a berm. The wall was not the problem.
the wall likely met regulations for that airport so they won't be at fault for having it, but the video clearly shows it was a problem for this particular flight/crash
with unlimited space the plane may well have just skidded to a halt, unfortunately that was not available, so I think we agree?
mechanical failure seems a lot more likely, but I just became aware of their 7min go around so they wouldn't have had time to complete their checklists, they didn't have flaps in the correct position for the second approach, and at least one airbrake was deployed, so we'll see but sabatoge prly not
Could be either, an investigation to check the black box flight log for any evidence of mechanical faults, as well as reviewing the cockpit audio recording to find out what happened
Major airports should have a barricade similar to those on aircraft carriers to “catch” a sliding, out of control jetliner. Can be deployed automatically in seconds. Better than a “perimeter wall” the Jesus Air 73 unfortunately collided with.
Ummmm…why was the sponsored ad in that article about an airline? And why was that airline El Al??? and why was that El Al ad about an IDF soldier missing his kid’s birth cuz he’s fighting? And why doesn’t the ad mention whom he’s killing and why?
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never would have sought that out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzmptA6s-1g
with unlimited space the plane may well have just skidded to a halt, unfortunately that was not available, so I think we agree?