A Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 crash-landed at Muan International Airport in South Korea, killing 179 of the 181 passengers on board. The aircraft, which was involved in the nation’s worst air disaster in decades, was about 15 years old and had been delivered to Jeju Air in 2017. The Boeing 737-800 model is one of the world’s most common, with nearly 4,400 in service, making up about 17% of the global commercial passenger jet fleet. The average age of these planes is 13 years. Investigators are probing the cause of the belly landing, with theories including a possible bird strike that could have disabled the engines. Despite the potential for manual deployment of landing gear, the incident has raised questions about why it wasn’t used. The investigation, led by South Korea with U.S. involvement, could take over a year.
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