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Watch: Moment South Korea plane skids along runway before fiery crash. Monday 30 December 2024 05:30, Alisha Rahaman Sarkar. A Jeju Air passenger plane carrying 181 people skidded down the runway ...
The plane was initially recognized by Soviet anti-aircraft defense radars as a Boeing 747. Sukhoi Su-15TM jets were sent to intercept. When both jets were flying next to the Korean airliner, the Korean captain claimed he slowed the plane and initiated landing lights. Nevertheless, the Su-15 crews were ordered to shoot down the plane.
The accident is the deadliest aviation disaster involving a South Korean airliner since the 1997 crash of Korean Air Flight 801 in Guam and became the deadliest aviation accident on South Korean soil, surpassing the 2002 crash of Air China Flight 129 that killed 129 people. [2] This was the first fatal accident in Jeju Air's 19-year history. [3]
Footage of Sunday’s crash broadcast by multiple South Korean news outlets showed the plane sliding on its belly at high speed, hitting an earthen embankment and erupting in a fireball.
A plane carrying 181 people crashed at an airport in South Korea in late December, killing 179. Photos and videos show the aircraft overrunning a runway before being engulfed in flames.
Flight data and cockpit voice recorders on the South Korean Jeju Air plane which crashed last month, killing 179 people, stopped recording about four minutes before it came down at Muan airport, ...
The crash damaged Asiana's reputation [66] [112] [113] [114] and that of South Korea's aviation industry following years of apparent improvements after a series of aircraft disasters in the 1980s and early 1990s. [115] Asiana shares fell by 5.8% on the first day of trading after the crash. [116]
Witnesses to a deadly plane crash in South Korea on Sunday said they observed flames in the engine of the aircraft and heard explosions, according to a report.. A Jeju Air flight skidded off a ...