South Korea Bird Strike Before Deadly Boeing Crash
The Boeing passenger jet that crashed over the weekend killing hundreds was reportedly warned of a bird strike minutes before it attempted an emergency landing.
According to the country’s Transport Ministry, air traffic controllers alerted the crew the aircraft had experienced a bird strike before the fatal accident on Saturday that killed 179 people.
A Jeju Air flight 7C2216 carrying 181 passengers and six flight attendants drove off the runway and crashed into a wall at Muan International Airport in South Korea 🇰🇷
News1 Agency also reports a passenger allegedly sent a text message to a family member minutes before the crash claiming there had been a bird strike somewhere near or on the plane’s wing.
Dramatic video that surfaced after the deadly crash showed the plane sliding across the asphalt … unable to stop itself before it ran straight into a wall and exploded.
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All passengers and four crew members were killed in the fiery crash. The only two who survived the crash were crew members in the back of the plane.
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