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 HL8088, the aircraft involved in the accident, pictured in 2023 | |
| Accident | |
|---|---|
| Date | 29 December 2024 |
| Summary | Crashed into concrete structure following runway overrun and belly landing; under investigation |
| Site | Muan International Airport, Muan County, South Jeolla Province, South Korea 34°58′35″N 126°22′58″E / 34.97639°N 126.38278°E |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Boeing 737-8AS[a] |
| Operator | Jeju Air |
| IATA flight No. | 7C2216 |
| ICAO flight No. | JJA2216 |
| Call sign | JEJU AIR 2216 |
| Registration | HL8088 |
| Flight origin | Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok, Thailand |
| Destination | Muan International Airport, Muan County, South Jeolla Province, South Korea |
| Occupants | 181 |
| Passengers | 175 |
| Crew | 6 |
| Fatalities | 179 |
| Injuries | 2 |
| Survivors | 2 |
Jeju Air Flight 2216 was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by Jeju Air from Suvarnabhumi Airport near Bangkok, Thailand, to Muan International Airport in Muan County, South Korea. On 29 December 2024, the Boeing 737-800 operating the flight was approaching Muan, when a bird strike occurred. The pilots issued a mayday alert, performed a go-around, and on the second landing attempt, the landing gear did not deploy and the airplane belly landed well beyond the normal touchdown zone. It overran the runway, colliding with the approach lighting system and crashing into a berm encasing a concrete structure that supported an antenna array for the instrument landing system. The collision killed all 175 passengers and 4 of 6 crew members. The surviving 2 cabin crew were seated in the rear of the plane, which detached from the fuselage, and were rescued with injuries.[1] Both the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder stopped functioning a few seconds before the mayday call, and evidence of a bird strike with a species of migratory duck was later found in both engines.
The accident is the deadliest aviation disaster involving a South Korean airliner since the 1997 crash of Korean Air Flight 801 in Guam and became the deadliest aviation accident on South Korean soil, surpassing the 2002 crash of Air China Flight 129 that killed 129 people.[2] This was the first fatal accident in Jeju Air's 19-year history.[3]
The crash is the deadliest aviation accident involving a Boeing 737 Next Generation aircraft and the deadliest aviation accident since the crash of Lion Air Flight 610 in 2018 as well as the second deadliest involving a Boeing 737.[4]
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- ^ Hradecky, Simon (29 December 2024). "Crash: Jeju B738 at Muan on Dec 29th 2024, gear up landing and overrun". The Aviation Herald. Archived from the original on 29 December 2024. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
- ^ Choe, Sang-Hun; Jin, Yu Young; Zhuang, Yan (29 December 2024). "What to Know About South Korea's Worst Plane Crash in Decades". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 29 December 2024. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
Sunday's crash was the worst aviation accident involving a South Korean airline since a Korean Air jet slammed into a hill in Guam, a U.S. territory in the western Pacific, in 1997.
- ^ "179 Dead In South Korea's Worst Plane Crash". Barron's. Agence France-Presse. 28 December 2024. Archived from the original on 30 December 2024. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
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