Jeju Air 737 crash South Korea

[Zaphod58]

Why did they emergency crash land the plane so close to the berm? I’m no expert, just seems like common knowledge that they’d want to land in an open of an area as possible. Unless they were trying to limit collateral damage, and look where that got them.

Someone said they landed the opposite direction because of all the houses off the end of the runway in the direction everything else was landing. If they didn’t stop they would have gone into all the houses and the death toll would be a lot higher. They hit the berm because they ended up floating a long way down the runway due to the higher approach speed and lack of flaps and slats.