Bird strike ‘would NOT have crippled landing gear of doomed Jeju jet’
Aviation experts say a bird strike should not have crippled the landing gear of the doomed plane that crashed in South Korea and killed 179 people. The twin-engine Boeing 737-800 carrying 181 people is believed to have encountered a flock of birds as it came in to land at Muan International Airport on Sunday morning. Unverified video footage reportedly of the aircraft shows a burst of fire coming out of the jet's right engine supposedly showing the moment the bird struck the plane.Early …
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