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An aviation expert said that a bird strike alone would not sufficiently explain why a South Korean airline jet skidded off a runway and crashed, killing nearly every passenger on board. On Sunday, Jeju Air Flight 2216 was landing at Muan International Airport about 180 miles south of Seoul when the incident occurred, according to the Wall Street Journal. The crash killed 179 of the 181 passengers and crew members onboard. WARNING: The following post contains video of the crash, which may be disturbing for some readers. VIDEO AT LINK................. “There are a million backups on this airplane. It’s extremely...

Aviation experts are raising serious questions about a curious concrete wall near the end of an airport runway in South Korea — after a catastrophic crash killed 179 people on board a Jeju Air flight on Sunday. The Boeing 737 jet erupted in a fireball — killing all but two people on board Flight 7C2216 — after it skidded off the end of the runway at Muan International Airport and slammed into the structure. Air safety specialists are now questioning why it was there at all. David Learmount, a former pilot and flying instructor for the UK’s Royal Air Force,...

Boeing shares fell 4.5% Monday morning after South Korean officials ordered an inspection of the plane model involved in the deadly Jeju Air crash over the weekend. Acting President Choi Sang-mok instructed the Transport Ministry to launch an emergency inspection of the country’s entire airline operations. Officials at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) said they would inspect all B737-800 planes, the model involved in the crash. On Sunday morning, the commercial plane skidded off the runway, crashed into a wall and burst into flames while landing at Muan International Airport – killing all but two of its...

Both crew members who were rescued from the tail section of the flight after it crashed, could not recall the events of the accident The flight attendants, who were the only surviving passengers of the Jeju Air plane that crashed at Muan International Airport in South Korea on Sunday, were not able to recall the tragic accident, reported The Korea Times. The two crew members were rescued by emergency workers and rushed to hospital. Fire department officials stated that the two were conscious and did not suffer from any life-threatening condition. Survivor Lee However, when 32-year-old Lee was asked to...

n eyewitness of a South Korean jet plane crash has described the horrifying moment they knew a jet engine had exploded. Just two people - both crew members, one male and one female - are believed to have survived among the 181 people on board the Jeju Air flight, a Boeing 737-800. Government officials have confirmed an official death toll of 179. Kim Yong-cheol, 70, told Yonhap News that he was staying by the airport and noticed something was wrong. 'I saw the plane descending and thought it was about to land when I noticed a flash of light,' Cho...

The aircraft's flight data recorder (FDR) was found to be partially damaged, making data extraction impossible on-site. Officials plan to send the FDR to the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board in Washington for analysis on Monday. Separately, authorities have begun the process of returning victims' personal vehicles to their families, with applications being accepted from relatives. Digital forensic analysis is also being conducted on 107 mobile phones recovered from the crash site under the consent of the families. Investigators are hoping the analysis might yield critical information that might shed light on the in-cabin situation just before the crash.