A recent Jeju Air plane crash in South Korea, resulting in 179 fatalities, has sparked investigations into potential flight fatigue and the airline's reliance on charter operations. Some experts believe the aircraft may have been overstretched due to a high number of flights within a short period.
The doomed Jeju Air flight that crashed in South Korea killing 179 people made a whopping 13 flights in the 48-hour period before it crashed.Industry experts have raised concerns about whether the Boeing 737-800, Flight 7C2216, may have over extended itself by scheduling too many flights during the peak holiday season.
It was reportedly used for a journey between Muam, Jeju Island and Incheon, which is west of Seoul, South Korean news agencyThe Jeju aircraft worked as a charter flight for group tours - mostly run by a Gwangju-based travel firm which offered Christmas trips to Bangkok.Addressing fears about whether the airline was overstretched, one travel industry official told Yonhap: 'In the case of regional airports, there are very few regular flight routes, so they often rely on charter operations. 'Since most airlines operating at regional airports are low-cost carriers, the majority of charter flights are run by these airlines.' According to the airline's own data the average monthly flight time for each Jeju aircraft came in at 418 hours between July and September.Only two of the 181 people onboard the Jeju Air flight survived With no landing gear the enormous jet scraped along the tarmac at record speed before smashing into a concrete wall andMuan fire chief Lee Jung-hyun, who worked on extinguishing the blaze, said: 'Only the tail part retains a little bit of shape, and the rest of looks almost impossible to recognise.'Most casualties and deaths sustained during plane crashes happen at the front.This is where the 33-year-old male flight attendant and his female colleague, 25, were found.According to his doctors, he woke up disorientated and asked: 'What happened, why am I here?' He told medics he had been wearing a seat belt before the crash, but could not remember anything after tha
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