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Time of India
7 days ago
- Time of India
Jeju Air flight veers off course in Vietnam months after deadly crash, no injuries reported
Representative image Jeju Air, South Korea's top low-cost airline, faced another safety scare when one of its planes ran into minor trouble while landing at Da Nang International Airport in Vietnam, local news reported on Wednesday. Jeju Air Flight 2217 from Incheonbriefly went off course while landing at the airport at around 12.50 AM (1.50 AM Singapore time) on Tuesday. The plane, which had 183 passengers on board, quickly got back on track and landed safely. No one was hurt, but the landing gear tyres were damaged. The airline replaced the tires in Da Nang and deployed a replacement plane of the same type, Boeing 737-800, for the return flight. The return flight took off at 4.08 PM on the same day from Da Nang International Airport, 14 hours and 38 minutes later than the initially scheduled time. Jeju Air's fleet comprises mostly Boeing 737-800 planes, which was also the model of the ill-fated Flight 2216. Officials from South Korea's ministry of land, infrastructure and transport are conducting an investigation to determine the exact cause of the incident. This comes months after Jeju Air faced a serious accident on December 29, 2024, when Flight 2216 crash-landed at Muan International Airport in South Jeolla province. The plane slid off the runway and hit a berm that surrounded a concrete structure. It exploded on impact, killing almost everyone on board. Only two crew members sitting at the back of the plane survived.
Straits Times
7 days ago
- General
- Straits Times
Jeju Air plane damaged in botched landing at Vietnam airport, no injuries
The tires on the plane's landing gear were damaged after it veered off course while landing at Vietnam's Da Nang International Airport. PHOTO: REUTERS SEOUL - Jeju Air, under public scrutiny after the deadly crash of Flight 2216 that killed 179 in late 2024 , had another scare recently when one of its planes experienced minor difficulties while landing at Da Nang International Airport in Vietnam, according to local news reports on May 29 . Jeju Air Flight 2217 from Incheon veered off course for a moment while landing at the airport in Vietnam at around 12.50am (1.50am, Singapore time) on May 28 . The aircraft carrying 183 passengers immediately returned to course and no one was injured, but the tires on the landing gear were damaged in the process. The airline replaced the tires in Da Nang and deployed a replacement plane of the same type — Boeing 737-800 — for the return flight. The return flight took off at 4.08pm the same day from Da Nang International Airport, 14 hours and 38 minutes later than the initially scheduled time. Jeju Air's fleet mostly comprises Boeing 737-800 planes, which was also the model of the ill-fated Flight 2216. Officials of South Korea's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport are conducting an investigation to determine the exact cause of the incident. Jeju Air, one of the leading budget carriers in Korea, suffered a major blow when Flight 2216 belly-landed at Muan International Airport in South Jeolla Province on Dec 29, 2024. The plane overshot the runway and crashed into a berm encasing a concrete structure, leading to an explosion that killed all of those onboard except two crew members in the back. The Transportation Ministry has confirmed a bird strike on at least one of the engines, but the exact details of the accident remain under probe. THE KOREA HERALD/ASIA NEWS NETWORK Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
Korea Herald
7 days ago
- Automotive
- Korea Herald
Jeju Air plane damaged in botched landing; no injuries
Plane momentarily goes off course while touching down in Da Nang, sustains damages to tires Jeju Air, under public scrutiny after the deadly crash of Flight 2216 that killed 179 late last year, had another scare recently when one of its planes experienced minor difficulties while landing at Da Nang International Airport in Vietnam, according to local news reports Thursday. Jeju Air Flight 2217 from Incheon veered off course for a moment while landing at the airport in Vietnam at around 12:50 a.m. on Wednesday. The aircraft carrying 183 passengers immediately returned to course and no one was injured, but the tires on the landing gear were damaged in the process. The airline replaced the tires in Da Nang and deployed a replacement plane of the same type — Boeing 737-800 — for the return flight. The return flight took off at 4:08 p.m. the same day from Da Nang International Airport, 14 hours and 38 minutes later than the initially scheduled time. Jeju Air's fleet mostly comprises Boeing 737-800 planes, which was also the model of the ill-fated Flight 2216. Officials of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport are conducting an investigation to determine the exact cause of the incident. Jeju Air, one of the leading budget carriers in Korea, suffered a major blow when Flight 2216 belly-landed at Muan International Airport in South Jeolla Province on Dec. 29, 2024. The plane overshot the runway and crashed into a berm encasing a concrete structure, leading to an explosion that killed all of those onboard except two crew members in the back. The Transportation Ministry has confirmed a bird strike on at least one of the engines, but the exact details of the accident remain under probe.
New York Times
01-05-2025
- General
- New York Times
Jeju Air Disaster Prompts a Reckoning Over Runway Safety
Jeju Air Flight 2216 did not have to end in such a catastrophe. Early on Dec. 29, a clear Sunday morning, the Boeing 737-800 made an emergency landing on its belly at South Korea's Muan International Airport. The aircraft skidded past the end of the runway, smashed into a concrete structure and burst into flames. Of the 181 passengers and crew members aboard, 179 were killed. Runway excursions — when an aircraft overruns or veers off the runway during landing or takeoff — have for years been among the most common type of aviation accident. But in the vast majority of cases, the planes come safely to a stop, saved in part by zones around runways that are supposed to contain only structures that are frangible, meaning designed to break easily upon impact. The New York Times analyzed information on more than 500 runway excursions and found that 41 resulted in deaths. In 2010, 158 people died when a flight in India overran the runway and fell into a gorge. But no other runway excursion has come close to the death toll at Muan airport, according to the data, which was compiled by the nonprofit Flight Safety Foundation. Accidents in which planes hit breakable structures at the end of runways have tended not to be deadly: Damaged antenna structure Damaged antenna structure Damaged antenna structure Damaged antenna Damaged antenna Damaged antenna Path of plane Path of plane Path of plane Part of destroyed plane Concrete structure Part of destroyed plane Concrete structure Part of destroyed plane Concrete structure In October 2022, a Korean Air plane skidded off a runway in the Philippines amid heavy rain and collided with a metal structure. The structure, a mount for an antenna array used to help planes land, broke apart upon impact. All 173 passengers and crew members survived. In November 2018, a cargo plane also overshot the runway and crashed into a similar antenna mount in Halifax, Canada. The structure fell apart, and everyone on board survived. The Jeju Air flight in Muan met a different fate. In Muan, the antenna array mount was made of concrete, reinforced with steel beams. Sources: Alan Tangcawan/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images;Transportation Safety Board Of Canada; Video by Lee Geun-young By Agnes Chang The story behind why a steel-reinforced concrete structure stood so close to a runway illustrates a longstanding vulnerability in global air transport. A United Nations aviation safety agency issues recommendations to keep the area near airport runways clear of obstacles. But it is up to national regulators and private companies that manage airports to interpret, implement and oversee compliance of those standards. Inquiries by The Times to airport regulators in more than two dozen countries revealed inconsistencies in how they interpret the standards issued by the U.N. agency, the International Civil Aviation Organization. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Korea Herald
30-04-2025
- Korea Herald
Korea rolls out air safety measures after Jeju Air tragedy
Airlines responsible for deadly aviation accidents to be stripped of air traffic rights for a year The South Korean government on Wednesday announced a series of air safety measures, including strict penalties for fatal accidents and new rules targeting potentially hazardous conditions at airports — factors believed to have attributed to the deadly Jeju Air crash landing in December that killed 179 of the 181 onboard. Strict punitive actions for airlines responsible for deadly aviation accidents are part of the plans announced by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. Such airlines would in principle not be allocated air traffic rights by local authorities for a year, and would only be reinstated for domestic operation upon passing a safety review to take place after a one-year ban. Airlines with poor air safety indexes will be subject to a government review and possible ban on adding new air routes to their local operation. Revamping airport infrastructure, addressing bird strike issues and improving aircraft maintenance are other measures that have also been announced by the ministry. A key change is in the possibly hazardous structure of localizers — a component of the Instrument Landing System — at some airports, specifically those placed on berms that may or may not have encasing concrete structures. The tragedy of the Jeju Air Flight 2216 at Muan International Airport involved the aircraft bursting into flames after ramming into a concrete structure inside an earthen berm for localizers, which is suspected to have been behind the high casualty rate. Localizers at all airports are now to be placed on flat ground, a measure that will be enforced this year, with the metal structures of the localizers mandated to be made of relatively fragile steel frames that break easily in the case of a plane crash. The relatively short runway at the airport was another factor suspected to have played a part in the accident, and the ministry is mandating all domestic airports to secure at least 240 meters of the runway end safety area. Muan Airport and Gimhae International Airport, serving Busan, will extend their respective runway end safety areas in the second half of this year, while Wonju (Heongseong) Airport in Gangwon Province and Yeosu Airport in South Jeolla Province are to confirm their extension plans by October. Airports that cannot physically extend their runways, due to proximity to streams or roads, will install an engineered materials arrestor system, which uses a specially installed surface to absorb the kinetic energy of an aircraft to slow it down. Bird strike prevention measures, plane maintenance to be improved Based on the suspicion that a bird strike may have caused engine failure in the Jeju Air tragedy, Muan International is set to operate a radar to detect approaching birds. Other airports including Incheon Airport, Gimpo International Airport, serving Seoul, and Jeju International Airport are also to adopt this system next year. The government authorized use of bird control drones at eight airports across the country for both commercial and military use. The minimum bird monitoring personnel will be expanded from two per airport to four, and Muan in particular will gradually expand to 12. Current law bans the installation of facilities near airports that attract birds, such as the installation of orchards within a 3-kilometer radius and food disposal sites within 8 kilometers. The government is pushing for a law revision that will place a ban on such facilities within a 13-kilometer radius of all airports. The government will also increase mandated maintenance hours for each aircraft. Maintenance time for the Boeing B737 — the plane in the Jeju Air crash — and Airbus A320 family planes will be increased by between 7.1 percent and 28 percent by October, with the new standards to be applied for other types of aircraft as well, starting from the end of this year. Standard for a skilled technician will be changed from the current minimum of two years of experience to having at least three years of experience. The Aviation Safety Act mandates an inspection by a skilled technician, but there have been complaints that the current standard is too lax. Other measures include better management of pilot fatigue issues and the training process of flight attendants, for the flight crew to better respond to emergencies. The government's monitoring of the airlines will also be increased. The ministry has applied for a supplementary budget of 250 billion won ($175 million) related to the refurbishment of airport facilities and bird strike prevention measures.
