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.
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.