Experts analyze the causes of the Jeju Air Flight 2216 crash in South Korea, highlighting the potential role of a bird strike and the challenges of emergency landings.
The emergency landing of Jeju Air Flight 2216 looked highly skilled, experts say, but all except two of the 181 people on board were killed when the Boeing 737-800 hit a wall and burst into flames.
As South Korean investigators probe the causes of the country’s worst-ever aviation disaster on home soil, Agence France Presse takes a look at what could have gone wrong:The flight from Bangkok to southwestern Muan International Airport in South Korea was warned of a bird strike by the control tower as it came in to land. Minutes later, the pilot issued a mayday call before attempting an emergency landing – with video showing the plane coming down on the runway without its landing gear engaged. Bird strikes can cause fires inside the plane’s engines, damaging critical systems which can render the landing gear inoperable – meaning the wheels don’t come out to facilitate a smooth landing, said former pilot Kim Kwang-il. A “belly landing” is an emergency procedure for precisely this scenario and planes are designed to withstand this in emergencies, Kim, also a professor at Silla University Aeronautical Science, told AFP. “In this particular case, the pilot executed the belly landing exceptionally well,” he said, saying the plane came in “like a swan gracefully landing on a lake, slightly tilted backward for a smooth descent.”Video shows the plane hitting a barrier, prompting it to burst into flames. Only two people were rescued, both airline crew plucked from the tail of the plane. Kim said he was “quite upset” to see the collision with the wall, saying there should not have been any solid structures in the area, to allow for emergency landings – and if the wall had not been there, lives could have been saved, he sai
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