South Korea Jeju air plane crash

Video's that I have seen show an engine failure with sparks coming from it.
No landing gear was deployed and was riding along the runway belly down.

Single engine failure should not cause that level of devastation.
Possible pilot error or there will be a small list of issues with the plane and the questions of "why was it flying in the first place" will come up.
 
A South Korean transport official earlier gave details about what happened to the plane as it approached the airport.

  • The plane had been attempting to land but then air traffic control gave a bird strike warning forcing the plane to hold off, the official says
  • About two minutes later, the pilot called a Mayday - and air traffic command gave permission for the plane to land from an opposite direction
The pilot accepted - video shows the plane touched down without wheels or any other landing gear and skidded down the runway before crashing into a wall, causing a fiery explosion.

The transport department notes that the head pilot had been in this role since 2019 and had more than 9,800 hours of flight experience.
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Seems likely to be a bird strike given the circumstances described, it will be interesting to find out whether it was significant enough to cause failure of the landing gear or if something else resulted in it not being deployed.
 
Interesting take on the BBC site. If declared an emergency landing why the fire engines weren't already deployed and ready. Not that it would have helped in this scenario.

"It appears as though there has been a bird strike and one of the engines, the right-hand engine was impacted. This would have caused a lot of pressure in the cockpit."

He says that "with all the checking and cross-checking going on relating to this engine failure, it could well be that [the] pilots simply forgot to put the landing gear down"

But if the landing gear was not deployed, warnings would have sounded in the cockpit, he adds, and the undercarriage could be manually deployed if a problem prevented the landing gear from descending.

"Whether the engine situation was such that they felt they didn't have time to do that we don't know," Thomas continues. "But they would have declared an emergency and therefore the firefighting units should have been runway-side" and should have prepared for a gear-up landing. Foam can also be laid on the runway in such a case.
 
Surely with the gears down and flaps deployed they would have stopped well short of the wall?

Were there other failures before the bird strike? But then why no fire trucks? Crazy scenario.
 
200sols said:
Bird strike just before landing doesn't explain this. Landing gear is down and locked well in advance and if it isn't down the pilots will have to go into a hold and run the checks.
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If they'd been told to hold though and were subsequently approaching from the opposite direction expected for their landing (maybe all landings, hence the structure at the end?), that rather implies they weren't planning on landing particularly soon, so wouldn't necessarily have gear down etc prepped.
 
Seems they've now also recovered the cockpit voice recorder, so we should eventually get a reasonably clear picture of what went wrong.
 
Kenai said:
If they'd been told to hold though and were subsequently approaching from the opposite direction expected for their landing (maybe all landings, hence the structure at the end?), that rather implies they weren't planning on landing particularly soon, so wouldn't necessarily have gear down etc prepped.
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In any scenario unknowingly flying it into the ground without the gear down is unthinkable really. Has to be a lot more to this than a bird strike and I'm sure it'll all come out eventually.

I'll wait for the blancolirio videos on YouTube, he always does a good job of cutting through the noise.
 
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As for the wall, the plane landed halfway down the runway with no gear, looks like flaps were not configured for landing and speed was high. I reckon at that speed they'd have hit something at many major airports around the world and perhaps caused a lot more loss of life in the process.
 
CaptainRAVE said:
Surely with the gears down and flaps deployed they would have stopped well short of the wall?

Were there other failures before the bird strike? But then why no fire trucks? Crazy scenario.
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Must have been, engine failure could have resulted in a lot of damaged controls although they’re not supposed to.
Sounds like flaps and gear were none functional and they had very little control over anything else.
 
Slam62 said:
Sounds like flaps and gear were none functional and they had very little control over anything else.
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Facebook people are suggesting too fast, no gear down, potential flaps not configured which suggest Hydraulics. However, the engines look like they are set to reverse (unless the impact did it) - they also work on hydraulics.

All just hypothesis of cause, we will know quite quickly I imagine.
 
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