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A Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 crashes in Muan South Korea, killing 179 people of the 181 on board. 25th December 2024.

Jeju Air Flight 7C2216 landed at Muan airport with no undercarriage and slid into an earth bank and concrete structure supporting the ILS aerials for the opposite runway. Video of the aircraft sliding a high speed along the paved surface of the runway shows the aircraft intact but travelling at between 150 and 200 mph, …

A Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 crashes in Muan South Korea, killing 179 people of the 181 on board. 25th December 2024. Read More »

Azerbaijan Airlines crash near Aktau airport, Christmas Day 2024

. An Embraer E190AR aircraft of Azerbaijan Airlines crashed whilst attempting an approach to Aktau airport in Kazakhstan on December 25th. The aircraft had attempted to land at Grozny in Chechnya/Russia and missed the approach, deciding to divert to an alternate airport, when it declared an emergency citing a possible bird strike and loss of …

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Alaskan Airlines Flight 1282 Door Failure and decompression.

Alaska Airlines 1282 Door Failure in Flight. On January 5th (2024) an Alaskan Airlines Boeing MAX 9 aircraft lost a blank door section of the fuselage whilst climbing through 16,000 feet after departing from Portland, Oregon, bound for Ontario, California. The event left an emergency door sized hole in the aircraft and the decompression sucked …

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