Jeju Air 737-800 gear up landing slams into wall

When I first saw the clip within an hour of the crash, I thought I was just watching a dirt overrun and the explosion was very unexpected and brutal. Very terrifying ending for almost 200 people. This will be a very interesting one to read about seeing as they were able to make the runway (and be fast if anything), but no spoilers and gear while the flaps don't look to be in normal landing config but the reversers deployed. As head scratching as it is depressing.

I shot this aircraft both in Bohol (TAG) and NRT about 2 months ago, and I booked my friend a ticket home on JejuAir NRT-ICN-TAG after that trip and she was on HL8088 for the ICN-TAG leg. I have a safetycard waiting for me on my next Philippines trip that was "borrowed" off this 737. Crazy.

To look at this pic I took in TAG of the cockpit with the pilots who were smiling and waiving then see the nose shredded apart resting at the waist level of the rescuers is very sad. A reminder that even though things usually go right, that is not to be taken for granted as every flight can just as easily end abruptly as it can routine and unremarkably.

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HJB said:
Why the • would they build a wall at the end of the runway? Not a good week…
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A LOT of airports in Asia and other parts of the world are walled in by cement, including at the end of the runway. MNL is one major airport where this could happen, for example.
 
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Welp, that's like at least half the runway they're floating down right there...
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Looks like the #2 engine is still running in this video while #1 does not appear to be (from what I can tell). #2 is the same engine that took the bird strike.
 
Inverted said:
I think the dual engine failure, or at least a complete, two engine out scenario is out based on the sound of this video.


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Plus that might help account fit the apparent no flaps and gear.

This is why I’m a big fan of bullying those quick to jump to conclusions. Theres no prize for figuring it out first. If I have a bad day at work and my family has to read a bunch of bs about how bad I am at my job (I keep that secret at work) I’d be pretty upset.

Not saying the above is what happened, but there are certainly some things that we might learn from the investigation that could take this from what might appear to be a major to screw up to a bum deal that while it had a terrible outcome, was dealt with as reasonably as could be expected given the circumstances.
 
Screaming_Emu said:
Plus that might help account fit the apparent no flaps and gear.

This is why I’m a big fan of bullying those quick to jump to conclusions. Theres no prize for figuring it out first. If I have a bad day at work and my family has to read a bunch of bs about how bad I am at my job (I keep that secret at work) I’d be pretty upset.

Not saying the above is what happened, but there are certainly some things that we might learn from the investigation that could take this from what might appear to be a major to screw up to a bum deal that while it had a terrible outcome, was dealt with as reasonably as could be expected given the circumstances.
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Yea for sure. We will absolutely find out what happened and we can blame the crew when it comes time to I guess. Lots of people are saying that #1 isn't spinning so maybe they secured the wrong engine, and had #1 off, with #2 badly damaged from the bird strike. Entirely possible. I think we are all on pins and needles trying to figure out how this happened.
 
Inverted said:
Yea for sure. We will absolutely find out what happened and we can blame the crew when it comes time to I guess. Lots of people are saying that #1 isn't spinning so maybe they secured the wrong engine, and had #1 off, with #2 badly damaged from the bird strike. Entirely possible. I think we are all on pins and needles trying to figure out how this happened.
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Or the birbs took out both.
 
I watched something earlier that was talking about the video of the "apparent" bird strike from a low position as the airplane was flying over. It looked to be taken from a cell phone and there's a much less than zero chance that the image is reversed, meaning maybe #1 actually took the bird(s). Regardless those pilots wanted to get on the ground ASAP because the time between them going around on their first approach and their "impossible" turn back to the accident was about 6 minutes, something was going on that had those folks wanting to land immediately. I heard the NTSB is going to participate in the investigation.
 
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