Experts are detailing more on the terrifying incident that left more than 179 people dead in a horrifying plane crash in South Korea yesterday.
The plane reportedly hit a giant concrete wall located at the end of the runway which many feel was an almost criminal error, causing so many people to die in a fiery crash.
The Jeju Airline skidded off the runway in the town of Muan which is nearly 180 miles of Seoul. Moments after it rammed into the concrete barrier, it burst into flames on Sunday after the landing gear failed to deploy.
Only two survivors were there and the country has labeled it as one of its worst aviation disasters to date.
Shocking video shows the plane’s approach after hitting a bird before it circled the runway and tried to land with the flaps up. This means the plane did suffer from a hydraulic failure that may have prevented the landing gear from getting deployed.
One leading air safety expert is speaking about a completely different outcome provided the plane hit a fence and slid over the road or perhaps stopped in a nearby field.
‘I believed everybody would still be alive today. The pilots could have suffered some damage in the case of a fence but still they would have survived’- the expert shared.
Other airline pilots started to chime in on the matter and how the jet might have lost power in one engine and suffered a hydraulic failure after striking the bird.
