South Korea plane crash latest: Jeju Air crash kills 179, with two crew rescued

Just a little earlier our colleagues on the information channel heard from Geoffrey Thomas, an aviation knowledgeable and commentator.

He explains: “It seems as if there was a chicken strike and one of many engines, the right-hand engine was impacted. This might have precipitated lots of strain within the cockpit.”

He says that “with all of the checking and cross-checking occurring regarding this engine failure, it might properly be that [the] pilots merely forgot to place the touchdown gear down”.

Pilots see warnings close to Muan Airport presently of yr for flocks of mallard birds, which may be very massive, Thomas says.

But when the touchdown gear was not deployed, warnings would have sounded within the cockpit, he provides, and the undercarriage may very well be manually deployed if an issue prevented the touchdown gear from descending.

“Whether or not the engine state of affairs was such that they felt they did not have time to try this we do not know,” Thomas continues. “However they might have declared an emergency and subsequently the firefighting items ought to have been runway-side” and may have ready for a gear-up touchdown. Foam will also be laid on the runway in such a case.

Thomas says that South Korea and its airways are thought-about “business finest apply” – each the plane and the airline have an “wonderful security report”.

He provides: “A whole lot of issues about this tragedy do not make sense.”