Posted on 01/27/2025 7:45:52 AM PST by Red Badger
Investigators say they have found evidence of a bird strike on a passenger plane that crashed in South Korea in December, killing 179 people.
The feathers and blood stains on both engines of the Jeju Air plane were from the Baikal teal, a type of migratory duck that flies in large flocks, according to a preliminary investigation report published on Monday.
The inquiry into the crash - the deadliest on South Korean soil - will now focus on the role of the bird strike and a concrete structure at the end of the runway, which the plane crashed into.
The engines of the Boeing 737-800 will be torn down and the concrete structure will be examined further, the report said.
The Jeju Air plane took off from Bangkok in the morning of 29 December and was flying to Muan International Airport in the country's south-west.
At about 08:57 local time, three minutes after pilots made contact with the airport, the control tower advised the crew to be cautious of "bird activity".
At 08:59, the pilot reported that the plane had struck a bird and declared a mayday signal.
The pilot then requested permission to land from the opposite direction, during which it belly-landed without its landing gear deployed. It overran the runway and exploded after slamming into the concrete structure, the report said.
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That concrete wall at the end of the runway is criminal, in my opinion.
Who in their right mind would build a concrete wall at end of a runway, to suddenly stop runaway aircraft with failed landing gear?
On many steep roads they have sand filled exits for runaway trucks with failing brakes. Why there was no such facility when a concrete wall was built to suddenly end the runway?
This was as stupid as the nuclear power plant in Japan where they had placed cooling fluid circulating pumps on top of the reactors. When the nuclear reactor has a meltdown, the pumps get melted down first! That is the problem with engineers. Any one can design anything. In medical field no one can prescribe a simple aspirin without a MD degree.
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Everyone would probably have survived if there wasnât a concrete wall.
Most would have. That wall was a stupid idea...................
Saw a video that speculated smoke in the cabin after the bird strike.
The non deployment of the landing gear is a wtf moment
There is no emergency procedure that calls for an intentional gear up landing on a runway!
FOD walk
Basic distance isnât even calculated using reverse thrust.
Goes without saying...easy to second guess his actions(worse comes to worse, put it in the water)...when it's not your arse in the seat/in the moment.
We wonât know what really happened for a while, but there is no airline emergency procedure that calls for a water landing, when a runway is available. The concrete wall at the end is an entirely different story which needs to be explained.
Were they on their final approach when the strike occurred? If so, why not just complete the landing? The go-around positioned the wall at the end of the runway. Had they just come in as originally planned, they would have flown over the wall.
The Japanese nuclear power plant failure was due to placement of the diesel tanks that were there to run the backup generators in case of power failure. They, unfortunately placed the fuel tanks outside the perimeter wall instead of inside as designed, and the tsunami washed them away. Without power the meltdown occurred.
Exactly, there are many, many questions to be answered. The entire scenario is very bizarre, even if they had a birdstrike.
It sounds like you might be Navy. Just curious...how often do they do that? Daily? More than once a day?
Airflow for one.
Sedond the mesh would be destroyed by a hit and also go into the engine.
Exactly, on both counts plus extra drag.
It has been a while but I remember some vital components were mounted on top of the nuclear reactor containment.
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