On Sunday, December 29th, 2024, Jeju Air Flight 7C2216 was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by Jeju Air from Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Thailand to Muan International Airport in Muan County, South Korea.
The aircraft was a Boeing 737- 800.
The aircraft was descending to Muan County, South Korea. While Air Traffic Control (ATC) asked to go around during the next approach, ATC said there was a flock of birds by the airport’s north side. During their second approach the front wheel did not open on the Jeji Air plane, and at 9:02 it hit the runway and belly-landed on runway 01 left. There were 175 passengers on board and 6 crew members, and the crash resulted in 2 survivors. One survivor, a flight attendant identified only by his surname, Lee, had “already been rescued” when he woke up, the hospital official said. “(Lee’s) fully able to communicate,” Woong added. “There’s no indication yet of memory loss or such.”
Another, a 25-year-old flight attendant named Koo, was also recovering, though not in intensive care, hospital staff and officials with the Korean Ministry of Land Infrastructure and Transport said neither survivor had life-threatening injuries, adding that both had awoken in the hospital without a clear recollection of what had happened after they heard a blast during the landing.
Investigators said that South Korea probing a Jeju Air crash that killed 179 people is the worst aviation disaster on its soil. They also said Wednesday they will send one of the retrieved black boxes to the United States for analysis. “The damaged flight data recorder has been deemed unrecoverable for data extraction domestically,” said South Korea’s deputy minister for civil aviation, Joo Jong-wan.”Today, it was agreed to transport it to the United States for analysis in collaboration with the US National Transportation Safety Board. “Joo earlier said both of the plane’s black boxes were retrieved, and for the cockpit voice recorder, “the initial extraction has already been completed”.
