A major plane accident occurred on Sunday morning at Muan Airport in South Korea. The plane returning from Bangkok with 181 passengers including crew members slipped off the runway while landing. The plane instantly turned into a ball of fire and 179 out of 181 people on board the plane, including the crew, died in this incident. Earlier this week, on Wednesday, a passenger plane going from Kazakhstan to Russia had crashed near the airport in Aktau city. 38 passengers had died in this accident. This accident was of a passenger plane of Azerbaijan Airlines.
After this accident, it was claimed in many reports that the Azerbaijan Airlines plane, which had crashed near Aktau, Kazakhstan on Christmas Day. He was the victim of a Russian missile or anti-aircraft attack while traveling from Baku to Grozny, Russia. President Vladimir Putin on Saturday apologized to Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev for the plane crash. He has expressed his condolences to the families of the victims of the plane crash.
How did the accident happen in Korea?
Videos broadcast by local TV stations showed the plane attempting to land without the landing gear deployed. During this, the plane slipped on the ground, hit a concrete wall before exploding and bursting into flames. The plane was almost completely destroyed in this accident. The fire in the plane has been extinguished by the authorities and search and rescue operations are underway. According to initial information, this accident happened due to a bird strike. This accident happened at the time of landing of the plane. However, the complete details of the accident have not been revealed yet. Muan Airport where this accident happened is about 290 km from Seoul.
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What are the claims being made for the accident in Korea?
The emergency office told The Associated Press that a landing gear failure caused the crash. The accident is believed to have been caused by ‘bird contact, resulting in landing gear failure.’ Acting President Choi Sang-mok has called for mobilizing all resources to rescue the passengers. “All concerned agencies should mobilize all available resources to rescue the personnel,” he directed officials in a statement.
Conspiracy theories are also emerging regarding plane accidents.
Many conspiracy theories about wars and plane crashes happening in the world have also been emerging from different sources. Some conspiracy theories claim that many plane crashes during wars are deliberately caused to achieve a specific military or political objective.
There is no concrete evidence or reliable information yet related to the plane crash in Kazakhstan that Russia caused it intentionally. However, some conspiracy theories often emerge, which may consider it to be a part of a conspiracy, but in such theories Most of the time there are no facts or reliable evidence.
Main points of Korea plane crash
- It was a Boeing 737-800 aircraft, which had 175 passengers (173 South Koreans and 2 Thai nationals) and 6 crew members on board.
- The accident occurred during landing at Muan International Airport at 9:07 am local time (5:37 am Indian time).
- Preliminary investigation has revealed that due to a malfunction in the landing gear of the plane, the pilots were trying to land without landing gear, due to which the plane skidded off the runway, hit the fence and caught fire.
- Jeju Airlines is a major low-cost airline of South Korea, which operates domestic and international flights.
- This accident is the third major plane crash in South Korea in the last one week, raising serious questions on air safety.
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