Jeju Air 737 crash South Korea

[Zaphod58]

Southwest had a fatality. They have gotten in several car accidents too. They T-Boned a minivan in Chicago once, and almost hit a gas station in Burbank. Occasional cabin depressurization. And with one of those, a single passenger was partially sucked through an hole caused by shrapnel.

My friend is a flight attendant for Alaska, and they do some joking about Southwest. Which is funny to me, coming from the airline that once pushed jack screw maintenance to every 2500 flight hours.

And contributed to airline safety by setting an example what happens if you ignore manufacturer specifications 4x over.

I feel bad for Boeing at times. The other countries that buy their planes (Including South Korea) put pilots in them with low situational awareness and crappy stick/rudder skills, like the Asiana Captain THAT DIDNT KNOW HOW TO FLY A VISUAL APPROACH. I'm sure their Max crashes were from similar pilot ineptitude and pilots fighting their own reliance on automation. And not just cutting autopilot and flying.

I realize the newer Boeings are easy to fly. And who needs to actually land the plane when you can set an altimeter, nav frequency, and runway heading. And then trim the plane, set the approach speed, and TOGO setting. God forbid they have cross the controls on a visual crosswind.

This isn't the case on this flight. This flight makes no sense.

How does a bird strike cause loss of the hydraulics on the gear?

I am trying to find a causal link.

Maybe CFM engines are just prone to catastrophic failure. That's like half of Southwest's incidents. Maybe this wasn't a bird strike as much as an another uncontained failure from a CFM engine on a 737?

Seems unlikely though. I am still not seeing bird strike = loss of gear.

The Southwest fatality wasn’t a crash. It was a serious incident, but as I said, there has not been a fatal crash of a commercial aircraft since Colgan went down in Buffalo.

The CFM56 is one of the most reliable engines flying. Southwest and other short haul carriers put a lot of strain on their aircraft, which generally leads to a shorter time between failures.

Both engines have a hydraulic pump mounted to them. If a blade failed, and punched through a hydraulic line, or took the pump out, the hydraulic fluid is going to leak out extremely fast, leading to a failure of whichever system that engine feeds. On the 737, if it’s the #1 engine it’s landing gear, and #1 reverse thrust IIRC. If it’s #2, it’s flaps, slats, and #2 reverse thrust. If the crew accidentally shut the wrong engine down, which has happened many times, no matter where it’s being flown, they would have lost both hydraulic systems if the one in the bad engine was damaged.