An accident destroyed a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 on Sunday morning at Muan International Airport in southern South Korea.
The aircraft, registration HL8088, was on flight 2216 from Bangkok when it landed with flaps and landing gear retracted on runway 19.
At high speed, the 737 jet was unable to brake in time and overran the runway, crashing violently into an embankment that served as the base for an array of antennas for the ILS landing system.
A video recording captured the moment the Boeing hit the structure after exceeding the runway limits.
Video shows Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 making emergency landing unable to stop and then hitting ILS antennas after end of runway. #jejuair pic.twitter.com/a5OYhsdotr
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The crew activated the engine thrust reversers, but it was not enough to reduce the speed.
There were 181 occupants on board and only two of them survived but are in critical condition.
The flight data recorder was recovered while the audio recorder was still being searched for.
Jeju Air is a South Korean low-cost carrier founded in 2005 and based in Jeju province.
The aircraft fleet consists of 40 Boeing 737s, 38 of which are the 800NG variant, like the one that crashed. There are also two 737 MAX 8s received just over a year ago.
The 737-800, registration HL8088, was originally delivered to Ryanair in 2009 but leased to Jeju Air in 2017. It was configured with 189 seats in a single-class layout.
