On Monday, another Boeing 737-800 plane operated by Jeju Air returned to the Gimpo airport shortly after takeoff when the pilot detected a landing gear issue. Jeju Air said the issue was resolved through communication with a land-based equipment center but the pilot decided to return to Gimpo...
The pilot later issued a “mayday” warning minutes later and made a second attempt at a belly landing, with its landing gear still retracted. The plane skidded along the runway with smoke trailing behind, before colliding into a wall at the end and bursting into flames. South Korea’s acti...
Minutes after, the pilot issued a “mayday” warning before making a second attempt with a belly landing, with its landing gear still retracted. The plane skidded along the runway before colliding into a wall at the end and bursting into flames. South Korea’s acting president Choi Sang-mok ...
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Tonight, new details in the deadliest airline crash in years. The Jeju Air pilot reported a bird strike and declared mayday just minutes before crashing here in South Korea. This Boeing 737 barreling down the runway on its belly right before smashing into that wall and going up in flames. ...
They said they were also trying to establish whether there were any communication problems between air traffic controllers and the pilot. The positioning of the localizer antennas close to the end of the runway behind unforgiving fortifications will likely be a focus for investigators.South Korean ...
It has been reported that the control tower at Muan issued a bird strike warning shortly before the pilot made a mayday call. “Staff members all said they had never seen so many birds before. They suddenly flew in from outside the airport,” an anonymou...
Aviation analysts say more evidence is needed before South Korean authorities can definitively pinpoint what might have caused Sunday’s crash. In a briefing on Monday, South Korean officials confirmed that the pilot reported a bird strike before he made the doomed emergency landing...
The cause of the crash remains under investigation, and aviation experts were quick to distinguish Sunday’s incident from the company’s earlier safety problems. Alan Price, a former chief pilot at Delta Air Lines who is now a consultant, said it would be inappropriate to link the incident ...
It happened about four minutes after the pilot of the airliner operated by Jeju Air reported a bird strike. Authorities investigating the crash plan to analyse what caused the black boxes to stop recording, the ministry said in a statement. The voice recorder wa...