AVIACIÓN
Los peores accidentes aéreos
December 30, 2024 -
El accidente aéreo más letal en la historia de Corea del Sur mató a 179
personas el domingo, cuando el vuelo 7C2216 de Jeju Air estalló en una bola de fuego al aterrizar en el Aeropuerto Internacional Muan.
The crash of the Boeing 737-800 aircraft is the country’s worst aviation disaster in decades.
“Only the tail part retains a little bit of shape, and the rest (of the aircraft) looks almost impossible to recognize,” Muan fire chief Lee Jung-hyun told a press conference.
Two crew members, a man and a woman, were rescued from the tail section of the burning plane, Lee said.
Yonhap news agency cited airport authorities as saying a bird strike may have caused the landing gear to malfunction.
South Korea’s Transport Ministry announced Monday that it plans to conduct safety inspections of all 101 Boeing 737-800 jetliners operated by the country’s airlines.
The Muan crash is South Korea’s deadliest aviation disaster since 1997, when a Korean Airlines plane crashed in Guam, killing 229 of the 254 people aboard.