Concrete barrier blamed for fatal S. Korea jet crash built to save money: audit
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Seoul: A concrete barrier blamed for a deadly South Korean jet crash that killed 179 people in December 2024 had been built to cut costs, the state au...
Seoul: A concrete barrier blamed for a deadly South Korean jet crash that killed 179 people in December 2024 had been built to cut costs, the state auditor said on Tuesday.
Jeju Air Flight 2216 was coming in to land at Muan International Airport from Thailand when it struck a flock of birds and was forced to make a belly landing.
While the pilots managed to put the aircraft down and slide it along the runway, it burst into a fireball after colliding with a concrete structure buried inside a mound at the end of the runway, killing 179 people on board.
Only two flight attendants seated in the tail section survived.
A government-commissioned simulation released earlier this year found that all passengers would have survived had the concrete structure supporting the localisers -- a navigation antenna system that helps aircraft during landing -- not been present.
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