Expert: Never seen a bird strike cause a wheel failure
It is not uncommon for planes and birds to collide in the air. It is also not uncommon for planes to have problems with the undercarriage. However, for a flock of birds to cause such a disaster as occurred at Muan airport on Sunday morning is highly unusual. This is what Australian aviation safety expert Geoffrey Dell told Reuters.
– Normally they do not cause a plane crash on their own. I have never seen a bird strike prevent the landing gear from being deployed.
According to aviation consultant Trevor Jensen, birds could have been sucked into the engines, but the engines would not have stopped working all at once. The pilots should have had some time to deal with the situation, he says.
Geoffrey Thomas, editor of the trade magazine Aviation News, questions why there does not appear to have been ground staff on site at the runway who could have laid out a foam mat, which is otherwise customary in similar situations.
– And why did the plane land so far into the runway? Why was there a concrete wall at the end of it?
Survivor: When I woke up, I was already saved
Only two people out of the 181 passengers on the plane in South Korea survived Sunday's crash. One of them is a 33-year-old flight attendant who is awake and able to talk, Yonhap reports.
– When I woke up, I had already been saved, he told doctors, according to hospital director Ju Woong.
The survivor has broken several legs and is being treated in a special ward due to the risk of sequelae, including total paralysis.
The plane was en route to Muan, South Korea, from Bangkok when it crashed. The leading theory as to why the accident occurred is a collision with a flock of birds.
The plane's black box has been recovered from the wreckage, but the BBC writes that it could take as long as a month before it can provide any answers about the accident.
It is not uncommon for planes and birds to collide in the air. It is also not uncommon for planes to have problems with the undercarriage. However, for a flock of birds to cause such a disaster as occurred at Muan airport on Sunday morning is highly unusual. This is what Australian aviation safety expert Geoffrey Dell told Reuters.
– Normally they do not cause a plane crash on their own. I have never seen a bird strike prevent the landing gear from being deployed.
According to aviation consultant Trevor Jensen, birds could have been sucked into the engines, but the engines would not have stopped working all at once. The pilots should have had some time to deal with the situation, he says.
Geoffrey Thomas, editor of the trade magazine Aviation News, questions why there does not appear to have been ground staff on site at the runway who could have laid out a foam mat, which is otherwise customary in similar situations.
– And why did the plane land so far into the runway? Why was there a concrete wall at the end of it?
Survivor: When I woke up, I was already saved
Only two people out of the 181 passengers on the plane in South Korea survived Sunday's crash. One of them is a 33-year-old flight attendant who is awake and able to talk, Yonhap reports.
– When I woke up, I had already been saved, he told doctors, according to hospital director Ju Woong.
The survivor has broken several legs and is being treated in a special ward due to the risk of sequelae, including total paralysis.
The plane was en route to Muan, South Korea, from Bangkok when it crashed. The leading theory as to why the accident occurred is a collision with a flock of birds.
The plane's black box has been recovered from the wreckage, but the BBC writes that it could take as long as a month before it can provide any answers about the accident.
Analysis: South Korea's year of crisis ends with a disaster
The South Korean plane disaster hits a country already marked by crisis, writes Richard Spencer in The Sunday Times.
South Korea has been seen as a stable democracy, but that image has been put to the test after this month's deep government crisis in which both the president and his successor were ousted and impeached.
As if the crises were not enough, South Korea is grappling with demographic and economic challenges at the same time as the threat from North Korea has increased due to the country's alliance with Russia.
Despite all this, Spencer believes that South Korea will cope.
“Crises happen, but South Korea always seems to survive.”
The Guardian’s Raphael Rashid and Justin McCurry write that acting president Choi Sang-Mok had been in office for 48 hours when the plane crash occurred.
“The flames that swept through the fuselage of the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 had barely died down before concerns were raised about Choi’s ability to act effectively,” they write.
At the same time, they add that the opposition, at least for the moment, is focusing on the accident rather than the domestic political crisis – something they call a good sign.
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