JeJu 737-800 crash landing at Muan, South Korea, Dec 29, 2024

[tally]

A JeJu Air 737-800 crash landed at the international airport of Muan South Korea. JeJu flight 7C departed Thailand in the wee hours of Sunday, Dec 29, 2024 for Muan. The aircraft seemed to have had issues with the landing gear as it was still retracted upon landing. The craft skidded down the runway at high speed and impacting a dirt hill erected to mount the localizer antenna's at the end of the rwy and eventually went through a concrete wall at the airport boundary erupting in fire.


The below has pictures and a video of the horrific event. May all souls lost rest in peace.


https://x.com/AlexInAir/status/18731765 ... gr%5Etweet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1r8dl4RqMw

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-paci ... 024-12-29/

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/sou ... index.html

[Gietje]

Aircraft involved is HL8088, former Ryanair EI-EFR

[Key]

Photographs now show the localizer itself was sitting on a pedestal of reinforced concrete and that's where the wreckage lies. Plane as a whole never reached the (brick) perimeter wall. Also of note is that it landed on 19, with all adsb data missing from roughly the moment of go-around on 01. Wind was calm, visibility good.

Erik

[Stratofreighter]

...this is a huge setback for the ongoing investigation:
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20250111001800320

14:45 January 11, 2025

The black boxes of the Jeju Air Co. passenger plane involved in last month's fatal crash
has been found to lack data
from the final four minutes before the explosion,
according to investigative authorities Saturday.

The explosion occurred at 9:03 a.m. on Dec. 29,
when the Jeju Air flight struck a concrete mound housing localizer equipment
at the end of Muan International Airport after skidding without its landing gear open.

The FDR and CVR ceased recording data starting at 8:59 a.m.,
making it challenging for investigators to analyze the situation.

[Stratofreighter]

...not many new updates today.

See
https://avherald.com/h?article=52225189&opt=0
/
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/26/asia ... index.html