A South Korean jet crashed after a reported bird strike, killing all but two of the 181 passengers on board. Aviation experts suggest the wall at the end of the runway may have contributed to the fatal accident.
Revealed: First words of cabin crew members saved from wreckage of doomed South Korean jetPotentially fatal mid-air bird strike s and rare 'black swan' events capable of bringing down a passenger plane could become more frequent, aviation experts fear. It comes after a jet in South Korea crash-landed on its belly before skidding off the runway and blowing up, killing all but two the 181 people on board, minutes after a reported a bird strike .
Doomed Jeju Air flight 2216 from Bangkok, Thailand, to Muan International Airport, exploded when it ploughed into a brick wall on Sunday, in South Korea's deadliest air accident ever. The early theory was that the impact of the birds on the jet led to the failure of the engine powering the landing gear, which in turn caused the fatal belly landing which saw the aircraft plough into a wall. Leading air safety expert David Learmount told Sky News that having a concrete wall at the end of the runway was 'verging on criminal' and said the collision with the object was the 'defining moment' of the disaster. He suggested that had the wall not been there, the plane would have instead hit a fence, slid over a road and likely stopped in a nearby field. However, Tim Davies, an ex-RAF Tornado fighter pilot, was skeptical this was the sole cause of the tragedy and feared 'pilot error' may have contributed to the disaster. 'He was leaving the runway at more than 100 knots, you're only going to experience death there,' the aviation expert said. 'If he landed at the beginning of the runway, he might have been able to slow down. But I fear he was coming in with too much speed and landed in the middle of the runway, that's why he couldn't slow down in time. 'It's a pretty common emergency that should have been dealt with. And the fact it wasn't, probably comes down to the pilo
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