The investigation into the accident is still ongoing. Many experts have wondered why there was a solid concrete structure at the end of the runway.
The survivor of the plane crash that happened in South Korea on Sunday has spoken to the doctors who treated him. He is the second survivor of the accident.
– When I woke up, I had already been saved, the 33-year-old man reportedly said.
The director of Ewha Women’s University Hospital told about it Joo Woong news agency Yonhap by.
According to Ju, the doctors have not asked the patient more about the accident.
The patient is in intensive care due to, among other things, fractures to the ribs, shoulder blades and upper back.
179 people were killed when a passenger plane failed to make an emergency landing at Muan Airport. The plane skidded at high speed on the runway without landing gear and crashed into an embankment behind the runway. After this, the plane caught fire.
The rescuers were able to rescue two crew members from the rear part of the plane.
Another of them, a 25-year-old flight attendant, reportedly injured her head and ankle. His condition is said to be stable.
Text message from the machine: “Should I write my last words?”
– The bird is stuck in the wing of the plane. We can’t land, wrote one passenger just moments before the crash British newspaper The Guardian by.
– Should I write my last words?
The investigation into the accident is still ongoing. The authorities have estimated that the background could be a collision with a flock of birds and bad weather.
The flight from Bangkok to Muan International Airport seems to have flown almost routinely all the way to the airport.
As the plane approached the airport, air traffic control warned it of a flock of birds. Just two minutes later, the pilots reported a hit.
There is also an eyewitness account of a possible hit. A man fishing on a nearby beach says he saw a flock of birds crash into the plane’s right engine, followed by two or three loud bangs and then flames.
It is known that the plane tried to make an emergency landing on the runway after this from the other direction of entry.
The video of the incident shows how the plane lands on the runway with the landing gear inside.
The video below shows how the events unfolded:
Why was there a solid concrete structure at the end of the runway?
Bird strikes can cause fires in the plane’s engines and damage critical systems, which can render the landing gear inoperable.
Airplanes are designed so that they can withstand landing even without landing gear in an emergency.
Considering the emergency, the crash plane’s landing went well, says the former pilot and professor at the University of Aeronautics Kim Kwang-il for news agency AFP. Kim assesses the events based on the video she saw.
Kim estimates that more could have survived if there hadn’t been a sturdy, earth-covered concrete dome at the end of the runway.
There is also an aviation safety expert from Munich on the same lines.
– Normally there is no wall at the end of the runway at the airport, said the Lufthansa pilot Christian Beckert news agency Reuters.
According to Beckert, the end of the runway is usually equipped with aircraft braking elements.
In Muan, there were devices on top of the humpback to assist in the navigation of airplanes.
The other machine also has a problem
On Monday, another Jeju Air plane also had problems with its landing gear, the airline said. It was a Boeing 737-800 model plane.
A fault in the landing gear was discovered shortly after takeoff on the flight that departed from Gimpo Airport in the northern part of South Korea. According to the company, they were soon able to operate normally, but the flight still returned to the departure field for a thorough inspection.
Jeju Air has 39 planes of that model in use.
South Korea is conducting an inspection that extends to all Boeing 737-800 series aircraft in use in the country.
It had been done with a crash machine 13 flights before the accident within 48 hours.
AFP, Reuters, STT