According to news on December 31, according to media reports, on December 29, local time, a Korean Jeju Air passenger plane crashed into a wall at Muan Airport in Jeollanam-do, South Korea. In addition to 2 people who were rescued, 179 people on board were killed. British aviation experts said,The wall design at South Korea's Muan Airport is "almost criminal." He speculated that if the plane had not hit the wall, there was a high chance that all the people on board would have survived.
In this regard, some domestic experts believe thatIt is too early to draw this conclusion. The design of Muan Airport may be compliant in principle, but the buffer distance at the end of the runway is relatively tight and the emergency response environment is not friendly enough.
The cause of the accident is currently under investigation. Some say the cause of the crash may be related to the failure of the landing gear after the bird struck.
According to information from the Korean Air and Railway Accident Investigation Committee and other sources, due to the damage to the "black box" casing of the crashed flight, the interpretation process took at least a month. The cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of the crashed passenger plane was intact, but part of the appearance of the flight data recorder (FDR) was damaged.