A BOEING 737-800 aircraft operated by Jeju Air crashed and caught fire after skidding down an airport runway in South Korea, killing most of the 181 people on board in one of the country's worst-ever aviation disasters.
Flight 2216 was carrying 175 passengers and six crew from Bangkok to Muan International Airport in the country's south, according to officials. Some 179 people were killed, with only a pair of flight attendants surviving, Yonhap reported.
The pilot issued a mayday emergency call minutes after the control tower warned of a bird strike. He aborted the landing, started a go-around and switched direction on the runway in his second attempt. The single-aisle plane touched down without its landing gear deployed, sliding down the runway at high speed before hitting a wall at the end of the strip and exploding into flames.
This story is from the December 30, 2024 edition of Financial Express Ahmedabad.
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