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After the crash, Jacob hiked to the wreckage and collected footage from the plane’s video cameras — which he strapped to the aircraft — that captured it crashing into a “dry brush area ...
The airplane descended as low as 59 feet (18 m), approximately 2.5 seconds after the thrust levers had been advanced. [7] Following a reconstruction of events, one pilot not involved in the incident noted that had the crew waited five more seconds before pulling up, it would have collided with the third airplane (UAL 863) on the taxiway. [15]
Jacob told the NTSB and FAA that he could not remember exactly where the crash took place despite having hiked to and from the site to recover his cameras. [11] The U.S. Forest Service said that the aircraft wreckage was removed from Los Padres under mysterious circumstances before the YouTube video was posted. [19]
A local restaurant owner heard "loud bangs" that sounded like the backfiring of a motorcycle engine, leading him to rush to the restaurant rooftop and record a 54-second video on his cell phone of the aircraft's descent and crash which subsequently went viral. [36] [37] Crash site of Jeju Air flight 2216 Emergency crews responding to the crash
The aircraft involved, a 13-year-old Boeing 737-222, registered as N62AF, was manufactured in 1969 and previously flown by United Airlines under the registration N9050U. It was sold to Air Florida in 1980. The aircraft was powered by two Pratt & Whitney JT8D-9A turbofan engines, and had flown over 27,000 hours before the accident. [4]: 11, 92
A video filmed from the ground showed the aircraft banking steeply to the left before crashing 65 metres (213 ft) away. [7] [3] [8] Another video of the crash was streamed live on Facebook from inside the plane by a passenger, Sonu Jaiswal, showing that the passengers were unaware of the situation until seconds before impact. [9] [10]
Aeroflot claimed the evacuation took 55 seconds, though video evidence shows the slides still in use 70 seconds after their deployment. Passengers were seen carrying hand luggage out of the aircraft. [4] The rear half of the aircraft was destroyed by the fire, which was extinguished about 45 minutes after landing. [6] [9] [10]
[9] [10] The aircraft's wings were reported as being on fire moments before the plane crashed into the rooftops of the houses and buildings in the area, [11] [12] [9] some of which caught fire. [13] The crash was captured on video by a CCTV camera of a nearby building, which shows the aircraft just before crashing into the neighborhood. [14]