'Landing gear' that didn't work...an eventually fuselage landing disaster

[Anchor]
The plane did not come down with landing gear to slow down when landing.

So it collided with the outer wall without slowing down, leading to a major disaster.

This is reporter Lee Moon-seok.

[Reporter]
The plane makes a fuselage landing on the runway of Muan Airport.

Neither the landing gear, which should be in the middle of the aircraft, nor the front wheels of the head are visible.

Smoke billowed from the right wing during the landing process.

Usually, during fuselage landing, the front of the aircraft is lowered to increase friction with the ground.

However, the passenger plane in this accident failed to do so because the landing gear did not come down.

Eventually, the plane crashed into the airport's outer wall without slowing down.

The accident airliner attempted to land the first time, stopped it, flew back up, and attempted to land the second time.

Experts are referring to the possibility of a "bird collision" when putting together a number of situations.

However, he said further investigation is needed to determine if there was a problem with the aircraft first or if the problem occurred due to a bird collision.

[Lee Young-joo/Professor of Fire and Disaster Prevention at Kyungil University: Whether the abnormalities of the landing gear came first and bird strikes were made during the emergency landing, or whether the bird crashed during the process of initially operating the landing gear and was not fully unfolded.]

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said it will closely analyze flight recorders and communication records to clarify the cause of the accident.

I'm YTN's Lee Munseok.

Photographer: Kim Kyung-rok Yeo Seung-gu
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