A Boeing 737-800 operated by Jeju Air crashed into a concrete barrier at Muan International Airport in South Korea, raising questions about the safety of such structures near runways.
Footage of the crash showed the plane traveling at speed when it made contact with the runway. It slid along the tarmac and collided with a concrete barrier. The Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 is believed to have suffered a birdstrike, but analysts doubt that as the single cause of the tragedy. Aviation experts have raised safety questions over the placement of large concrete barriers at the end of runways after a plane crash ed into one in South Korea.
The Boeing 737-800, operated by South Korea’s Jeju Air, exploded as it ploughed into the concrete embankment while making an emergency landing at Muan international airport. Some have pointed to the concrete structure – nearly two meters high, and understood to be much taller than those used at other South Korean airports. The barrier also supported a “localiser” antenna, whose purpose is to provide landing alignment information to inbound aircraft. David Learmount, a UK-based aviation safety expert, argued it was unusual and unsafe to have the localiser held by such a sturdy wall so close to the airstrip. “That kind of structure should not be there,” he told Sky News. “Not only is there no justification, I think it’s verging on criminal to have it there.”The crash risks created by structures near runways have resulted in international standards recommending a clearway of at least 90 meters and a preferred 240 meters, according to Prof Greg Bamber from Monash University’s Business School in Australia
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