Seoul: In the last 24 hours, there were three incidents of plane crashes in three countries of the world, in which 179 people died in South Korea, while tourists were miraculously saved in plane crashes in Canada and Norway. A Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 carrying 181 people on board in South Korea skidded off the runway at Muan International Airport due to a front landing gear failure on Sunday morning and burst into flames after hitting a wall.
South Korea’s transport force said that the 15-year-old Jeju Airlines’ 15-year-old Boeing 737-800 aircraft, returning to South Korea from Bangkok, Thailand, crashed while landing at Muan International Airport at 9.03 am. There were 181 people on board this plane, including 175 passengers and 6 crew.
Due to a malfunction in the front landing gear of the aircraft during landing, the aircraft skidded off the runway during a belly landing and collided with a wall, after which the aircraft caught fire. 179 people died in this accident. However, emergency personnel rescued two employees.
A total of 179 people were burned in the fire on the plane, including 85 women, 84 men and 10 others, whose gender was not immediately known, officials said. Apart from this, two citizens of Thailand are also included in the dead. Thailand’s Foreign Ministry said its embassy in Seoul had received information from South Korean authorities that two Thai tourists were among the dead. The fire agency deployed 32 fire trucks and several helicopters to douse the fire at the scene. 1570 firefighters, police officers, soldiers and other officials also joined the rescue operation.
Initial investigation revealed that the landing gear had failed due to bird impact with the aircraft. Transport Ministry officials said their preliminary assessment of communication records showed that the airport control tower alerted the plane to the bird heat shortly before landing and gave the pilot permission to land in a different area.
Video footage of the plane crash went viral on social media, showing the plane descending the runway at high speed with its landing gear locked and the plane skidding while landing with its rear tires against a concrete wall at the end of the runway. Had been. Is colliding. Then there is an explosion and fire. Muan Fire Station chief Lee Jeong-heon said the plane was completely destroyed in the crash. Only its wings can be identified in the debris.
At the time when the news of the plane crash in South Korea was being circulated in the media, at the same time the news spread that an Air Canada plane had also crashed at the airport of Halifax city of Canada. An Air Canada plane made a dangerous belly landing at Halifax Airport, Canada. The aircraft caught fire while landing with a broken landing gear. However, the emergency agency immediately reached the spot and extinguished the fire of the plane and in just two minutes, about 80 passengers and crew on board the plane were evacuated safely. Halifax Airport was temporarily closed following the accident.
Meanwhile, a plane accident also occurred in Oslo, Norway. KLM’s Amsterdam-bound flight landed at Torp Sandefjord Airport at 7.14 pm on Saturday. However, all 182 people on board the plane were rescued safely. The plane took off from Oslo at 6.55 pm, but passengers and crew reported hearing a loud noise. KLM Airlines said the pilot had to divert the plane to Torp due to the loud noise. Local media reported that the pilot decided to make an emergency landing after seeing smoke coming from the left engine. However, the pilot could not control the aircraft on the runway and it skidded off the runway and landed in the grass.
– This is my last message, a traveler’s message to his family
As news of the Jeju Airlines plane crash at South Korea’s Muan Airport spread, families and friends of the crash victims rushed to the airport. However, before the crash, as one passenger died, he sent a message to the family, saying, “This is my last message.” There’s a bird stuck in the wing of the plane and we can’t land. According to a report in The Korea Times, when asked how long ago the bird struck, he replied, “Just a minute ago… should I write my will?”
– December became the season for airlines in the world
– Total 236 deaths in plane accidents in December 2024
– 38 people died in Azerbaijan, 10 people of the same family died in Brazil, 5 people died in Papua New Guinea.
New Delhi: On Sunday, near the end of the calendar year 2024, 179 people died in a plane crash in South Korea. Along with this, the month of December has become a period for all the airlines companies of the world. More than 6 plane accidents occurred in December 2024, in which a total of 236 people died.
An estimated 179 people have died in the Jeju Airlines plane crash in South Korea on Sunday. A Jeju Air passenger plane was returning from Bangkok and after encountering birds while landing, the pilot lost control of the plane and crashed into a sliding concrete fence on the runway. 179 people died in this accident. Four days before this, on December 25, 38 people had died when an Embraer ERJ-190AR plane of Azerbaijan Airlines crashed in Kazakhstan. A total of 62 people including five crew members were on board the plane. It is also being claimed that this plane has been shot down by Russia.
Earlier in Brazil, on December 22, 10 members of the same family died in a private accident in Gramado city. The plane was being flown by Brazilian businessman Luiz Claudio Galeazzi. His wife, three daughters and other relatives were present in the plane.
On the other hand, a plane operated by North Coast Aviation also crashed in Papua New Guinea on December 22, killing all five people on board. Similarly, a Bombardier Challenger 300 crashed near San Fernando Airport in Argentina. Two pilots died in this accident. Similarly, another plane crash occurred near Honolulu on December 17, in which both the pilots died.