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The Jeju Air passenger plane skidded off a runway at Muan international airport, slammed into a concrete fence and burst into flames as the Boeing 737-800 from Bangkok attempted an emergency ...
South Korea suffered the worst aviation disaster on its soil just last month, when a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800, flying from Thailand to Muan on December 29 crash-landed and exploded into a fireball ...
The flight took off at about 9:24 p.m. on 20 February 2005. When the aircraft, a four-engine Boeing 747-436, was around 300 feet (91 m) into the air, flames burst out of its number 2 engine, a result of engine surge. The pilots shut the engine down. Air traffic control expected the plane to return to the airport and deleted its flight plan.
9.03am: the aircraft crash-landed on its fuselage, collided with the airport fence, and erupted into flames. Experts said the bird strike report and the way the aircraft attempted to land raised ...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A jetliner skidded off a runway, slammed into a concrete fence and burst into flames Sunday in South Korea after its landing gear apparently failed to deploy. All but two of the 181 people aboard were killed in one of the country’s worst aviation disasters, officials said.
The aircraft following immediately behind Flight 516—JAL166, a Boeing 737-800 approaching runway 34R—had to perform a go-around at 1,150 feet (350 m) before diverting to Narita International Airport. There were also several flights waiting for takeoff; most returned to the terminal after the runways were closed.
The captain was a 47-year-old male who had logged 7941 hours and 17 minutes of flying time, 3823 hours and 38 minutes of which were logged onto the Boeing 737-800. His co-pilot, aged 26, had logged 890 hours and 38 minutes of flying time, including 182 hours and 30 minutes on the Boeing 737-800.
A Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 crashlanded after failing to deploy its landing gear, skidded off the runway at the Muan airport and rammed into a concrete embankment. The plane burst into flames ...