The deadliest air accident ever in South Korea killed 179 people on Sunday, when an airliner belly-landed and skidded off the end of the runway, erupting in a fireball as it slammed into a wall at Muan International Airport.
I am wondering if the pilot thought he had gear. Reason being the speed and location of landing seen in the video of the crash. Runways are typically extra long in case of this kind of thing.
Comments on twitter indicate there’s weirdness however you look at it
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suggestion of birdstrike but not landing with any configuration consistent with that
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suggestion of loss of hydrolics but that wouldn’t prevent lowering of gear
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landing 2/3rd of way up runway far too fast
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no flaps extended
Since gear and flaps are set far before runway whatever went wrong was quite far back.
Slight possibility they had birdstrike on final approach and intended go around but then had another birdstrike and lost power (resulting in forced landing in flight configuration). shrugs
Wait… You can still put the landing gear down if the hydrolics are fucked?
Once they unlock (mechanical) gravity can pull them down to lock. You just can’t get them up again and they create a lot of drag.
That’s pretty cool. 😃
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