A Jeju Air plane crashed at Muan International Airport in South Korea, killing 179 people. The aircraft hit a concrete wall too close to the runway, according to reports. Investigators are looking into the cause of the crash, including why the pilot attempted to land after declaring an emergency.
BOSSES of the South Korea n airline whose plane crash ed allegedly knew that the concrete wall it smashed into was too close to the runway.All but two of the 181 people onboard tragically died in the horrific smash, one of South Korea 's worst ever aviation disaster s. The enormous Jeju Air jet belly-landed at Muan International Airport on Sunday before ploughing into the sand and concrete embankment.
Comments in the airport's operating manual - uploaded early this year - said the embankment was too close to the end of the runway.Captain Ross Aimer, chief executive of Aero Consulting Experts, told the news agency: 'Unfortunately, that thing was the reason that everybody got killed, because they literally hit a concrete structure.Authorities are scrambling to discover the cause of the crash and work out exactly why the pilot attempted to land after declaring an emergency.Meanwhile loved ones of those who died in the accident have been camped out at the airport waiting for news. Police have not yet been able to identify all the victims - with some 600 different body parts thought to have been recovered in the wreck. ‘Everyone could have survived’: South Korean plane doomed by ONE fatal error, expert says after horror crash kills 179It apparently came just after the control tower warned that birds had been spotted in the vicinity. Data on FlightRadar24 showed the plane's approach from the south - with its movements ending close to bird feeding and roosting hotspots.Muan 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 foun
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