A passenger plane burst into flames Sunday after it skidded off a runway at a South Korean airport and slammed into a concrete fence when its front landing gear apparently failed to deploy, killing most of the 181 people on board, in one of the country’s worst aviation disasters.
The plane didn’t hit a concrete fence. Right after the runway there was a strong concrete block that housed some antennas. Those antennas didn’t need such reinforced structure. This accident would have been much less severe, if that concrete block weren’t there.
Me: “Hah, an Embraer got shot down by an AA weapon and half the passengers survived, I’ll bet it’s a Boeing.”
The article: “737-800 … Landing gear failed to deploy”
Fucking hell, it’s always a fucking Boeing.
I feel like “burst into flames” while technically correct doesn’t exactly describe the event
