Jeju Air 737 crash South Korea

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This was a once in a million accident. You don’t design airports and runways around one in a million. The ICAO recommends a 240 meter clear zone off the end of the runway. The localizer was 250 meters out from the end of the runway.

As for 9/11, the only thing that was on those planes that was considered a threat was pepper spray, and that’s notoriously hard to see at screening.


Jet engines are extremely hard to make proof against everything, but I’ve seen one take a 20 pound Canadian goose and the pilots barely notice. The only reason it was changed was because the book required it. Most of the time it’s shut down due to smoke in the cockpit, or vibration because a fan blade is unbalanced. They’re usually producing some power afterwards, unless the bird hits just right or it takes multiple birds. Multiple birds will do quite a bit of damage.


As for turbulence injuries, 99.9% of those are passengers that aren’t wearing their seatbelt. They’re standing, or just took it off because the sign wasn’t lit. Absolutely nothing to do with harness design.

That's another thing, why does the cockpit and/or passenger compartment have to take on smoke from either engine? It just boggles the mind.

All I can say is Boeing and airline companies had better get their act together because passengers have filed a class action lawsuit for that door that flew off - for $1 Billion. It's not just the door flying off - it's the trauma caused by their negligence (in their own words).

As for S. Korean aviation standards and that particular airline's maintenance and crew operations/training, well we will be seeing what are the underlying issues after they comb through their safety operational standards, which they raided from the airline offices.