Plane With 175 Passengers Crashes At South Korea Airport, At Least 85 Dead | ZeroHedge

The crash occurred shortly after 9 a.m. (0000 GMT) as Jeju Air flight 7C2216, yet another unfortunate Boeing 737 aircraft (an 800, not a Max), was carrying 175 passengers and 6 crew members to Muan International Airport, in the country's south from the Thai capital Bangkok.

The incident is suspected to have been caused by a landing gear malfunction following a bird strike, according to the local fire department.

Zerohedge comments are amusing as usual:

Impossible, I've seen 2 of those fly straight through steal and concrete skyscrapers and take them out in the process. How did it just crumple like it's made out of aluminum?!?

Lessons learned from these 2 accidents: sit at the back of the plane.

Gear-up landing. (video here)

Based on this video, the aircraft was conducting a gear-up landing at Muan. https://t.co/QYK2Ofx34O

— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) December 29, 2024

Very high touchdown speed. (although the actual point is not shown is this video)

I am suspecting that they floated too far down the runway, then touched down at the 6000 foot of the 9138 foot runway.

Reversers appear to be deployed, but even with Gear and Brake + Reversers, this aircraft requires more than 3100 feet on touchdown rollout.

They may have tried to takeoff again, the speed is ridiculous for this point in the runway.

edit: This is WHY pilots are trained to "put it on the numbers". (and commercial aircraft on 500 footers) This preserves the maximum amount of runway to rollout OR go around.

They had it made, until hitting a ******* wall.

It's a "safety barrier".

Yep. Name checks out.

How do you say "If it's Boeing, I'm not going"

in Korean?

"You fly, you fry".

also,

"You fry, you fry".

Who puts a wall at the end of a runway?

Don't take off from Eagle or Pitkin County... and be glad you never visited Hong Kong back in the day.

They cram you in, you suffer and hope you don't die. I have predicted that they will eventually discontinue alcohol service on flights (except perhaps first class on long haul high end airlines).

I think the best solution is to put the passengers under using some anesthetic, pod them, and load them as cargo. Air travel for the proles.

I used to take Concorde pretty frequently. The days of how you want your toast made (cut off the crust or not) are long gone. I long for the days of the old Pan Am Clipper-- that must have been elegant. I find domestic air travel in the US to be completely dehumanizing, starting with the TSA- a bunch of badge heavy mall cops with federal authority.

TSA is a job they give to those who like to squeeze your nuts. Keeps em happy and employed.

And totally useless.

Depends on who and how good they squeeze em.