'Something more sinister': Experts weigh in as questions remain over South Korea

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'Something more sinister': Experts weigh in as questions remain over South Korea plane crash
https://www.9news.com.au/national/something-more-sinister-experts-weigh-in-on-cause-of-deadly-south-korea-plane-crash-that-killed-179/67e5ea0d-d7a1-4077-b0f3-d1b689314939

Aviation experts have cast doubt on whether a birdstrike could have been the sole cause of Sunday's deadly plane crash in South Korea, which killed all but two of the 181 people on board the flight.

Footage of the crash aired by South Korean television shows the plane skidding across an airstrip at high speed, evidently with its landing gear still closed, and slamming into a wall, triggering an explosion and generating plumes of thick, black smoke.

An official investigation into the cause of the crash is expected to take months as the jet's flight data and cockpit voice recorders are analysed, but authorities have initially mentioned a possible birdstrike as one potential factor in the devastating crash.

The Boeing 737-800 operated by Jeju Air plane arrived from Bangkok and crashed while attempting to land in the town of Muan, about 290 kilometres south of Seoul.

Could something else have caused Jeju Air Flight 7C2216 to crash? The landing gear was not deployed as it landed. Too early to say as the investigation goes on.

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A birdstrike would not have caused the landing gear to fail to deploy. Even the birdstrike that took out both engines of CactusAir 1549 (Sully Sullenberger) could not have prevented him from applying hydraulic power to the gear, had he not decided on the water landing in the Hudson River.