A passenger plane burst into flames Sunday after it skidded off a runway at a South Korean airport and slammed into a concrete fence when its front landing gear apparently failed to deploy, killing most of the 181 people on board, in one of the country’s worst aviation disasters.
Honest question, do you think the outcome would’ve been significantly better without the reinforced block?
I don’t know enough about the layout, the plane, etc, to have a good perspective.
Sounds like it was a crash, not a lack of landing gear. Though the timing on those messages would be informative, I don’t see the crew sending a mayday once they impacted the ground.
So I’m wondering if that wall made any difference at all (again, I really don’t know, just thinking out loud). I do wonder why they’d construct something so robust in a risk path.
The plane belly landed and slid on the runway. If there were enough flat ground for the plane to come to a stop, the passengers would have been more or less fine (assuming the plane wouldn’t have caught on fire). Instead, the plane turned into a fireball immediately it hit the wall. Of course, there were other obstacles behind the runway which the plane might have hit, but the plane would have also lost some speed before hitting them.