DISTURBING New Details on JeJu Airlines CRASH!

0:00 there's some troubling information coming out of South Korea on the horrific jzu Airlines crash that killed 179 people let's get into it in this episode of taking off hi I'm Dan milikin in this report we're going to talk about some information we're getting out of South Korea that has huge implications on the juzu Airlines flight 7c 2216 crash at muan International Airport on December 29th 2024 we'll also talk about why the cockpit voice recorder of CVR and the flight data recorder of the FDR stopped recording and news about a former executive of the Korea airports Corporation who was found dead in his

0:45 residence and we've got a report from someone in South Korea that if true has some big implications before we get into that I want to say that the news reporting we're doing on this ongoing investigation is based on official Authority press releases eyewitness accounts evidence everything that's readily available we're not speculating about what happened but reporting on what we know and what we found so far and why is this important well people and organizations including State media have well um a dog in the hunt that might color the information coming out or in the extreme cases uh change or suppress the information and data uh but for this safety of future flights and

1:31 for the families of victims we all need to know what happened accurately and here is what we do know as previously reported here on taking off juu air flight 7c 2216 was a scheduled International passenger flight from Bangkok Thailand to muan International Airport in South Korea on December 29th 2024 the Boeing 737800 aircraft carrying 175 passengers and six crew members reportedly experienced a bird strike while on Final Approach into muan International Airport the pilots declared a Mayday and executed a go around then attempted to land coming back the opposite direction the landing gear was not deployed during this second attempted Landing unfortunately the

2:18 aircraft overran the runway and collided with a concrete structure supporting the ISS localizer antenna resulting in a catastrophic fire tragically 79 individuals lost their lives two survived making it the deadliest Aviation disaster on South Korean soil the two surviving crew members were seated in the rear of the plane which detached from the fuselage upon impact one was a 33-year-old male flight attendant when he regained Consciousness he had no recollection of the crash he's being treated for multiple fractures and is under Special Care due to the risk of paralysis the other surviv Survivor 25-year-old female flight attendant is stable having suffered injuries to her

3:04 ankle and head and that's all we know about the survivors at the moment in a significant development investigators have confirmed the presence of bird feathers and blood in both engines while bird strikes are common in airliners the the engines are designed to handle Birds coming in all the time it's unclear at this point how much damage to the engines was created by these particular Birds but here are some hard numbers the last adsb uh point that we had was 1.44 mi from the end of the runway the 737 was on a stable approach The Heading was 360 at 144 knots at 1375 ft 4 minutes later the airplane impacted

3:51 the localizer array at 160 knots going the other way there's no way on short final that they lose both engines and have that result it's physics you can trade altitude for air speed if you lose thrust but in that last known configuration there's very little air speed and altitude so it had to have thrust okay that's one thing one report we're getting out of South Korea is that the Boeing 737 on Final Approach toan airport was indeed configured for landing that the flaps and the gear were actually in the down and locked position if this report is accurate it has some serious implic ations that we'll get into in a moment and I want to stress we don't know if it's accurate it's possible that the flight crew initiated

4:36 a go around before dropping gear and before the bird strike when the tower cautioned Birds maybe the flight crew saw a large flock and hit the go around button and as we get more data hopefully we'll be able to determine if this is true or not because it makes a huge difference standard procedures for the 737 in the US after talking to five different 737 Pilots is that the plane is totally configured for landing just before passing the outer marker or the Final Approach fix which is between 4 to 7 miles from the runway one US 737 pilot mentioned decades back it was the flight Crews decision and you could wait to be configured at 500 ft AGL but that changed years ago we do know from the

5:23 video taken on the ground of the stricken 737 flying overhead showing a puff of flame and smoke coming out of engine two or the right engine the gear appears to be in the up position the Final Approach to Runway 01 the first approach where they hit the birds is flown overwater the footage from the ground could not have been during this phase of Flight the video clip was taken most likely during the go around after it passed the airport our source in South Korea wishing to remain anonymous reports that the gear was down and on decision to go around they retracted the gear why is this news if accurate so critical well we'll get to that in a moment but before let's get to another big news story concerning the

6:10 crash Sun Chang Wan the former president of the Korea airports Corporation the KAC was found dead at his residence in GPO Gangi Province on January 21st 2025 several reports out of South Korea indicate Sun possibly took his own life even though noting the absence of any kind of um message Left Behind it's also being reported no signs of Foul Play the Korea airports Corporation is a public corporation responsible for the management operation and development of most of the country's airports 14 including Regional airports and several smaller airports with the exception being the big inchon International Airport the KAC manages everything from

6:57 Air Traffic Control ground handling security and passenger services to maintenance Sun led the KAC from December 2018 to February 2022 a tenure that included the 2020 renovation of muan international airports localizer this localizer reinforced concrete structure has been scrutinized following the juu airflight accident the localizer anray was constructed with a concrete base on an elevated Mound and this setup was intended to adjust for the slope at the end of the runway elevating the instrument Landing system the ILS antenna to ensure an adequate signal in compliance with the Iko requirements the international standards for Aviation the

7:44 structure was built on a mound approximately 13 ft tall with the concrete estimated to be 3 ft thick this design has been criticized for not adhering to the international standards which recommend that objects or facilities near the runway safety area should be made of frangible materials that would break or deform upon impact to minimize damage to aircraft despite his role during the renovation sun was not under investigation at the time of his death one note about the localizer structure it was located 656 ft from the end of the runway um that distance from the stop end of the runway wasn't really the problem the plane impacted around 60

8:30 knots you know another 100 ft or two wouldn't have changed the outcome the issue was the height above ground at 13 ft and a thick concrete support structure most airports it's a few feet high at the most and the antennas are frangible designed to easily break away at any impact the airport design is undoubtedly something investigators are looking at and was something that sun oversaw during his time as he head head of the KAC with Sun's death we spoke with a South Korean Source who wished to remain anonymous the South Korean culture does view the taking of one's life similar to other Asian cultures for instance Japan

9:15 is famous for the seppuku or Harry KY the ritual action while South Korea doesn't practice that particular ritual they do have the fourth highest suicide rate in the world per capita it's a sad statistic to be sure muan International Airport built in 2007 serves as a vital Transportation Hub for the region which has long been in need of such infrastructure however the airport's location has brought its share of challenges again talking to South Korean sources the airport is situated along migratory routes for Birds it faces a heightened risk of bird strikes which pose serious safety concerns for Aviation and when you look

10:01 at this chart that South Korean Pilots use you see the airport is surrounded by areas of heavy bird feeding and roosting areas there are an abundance of migratory Birds and the greater white fronted goose is known to be present in large numbers and to those not airline pilots are not understanding birds are ingested in the airline engines all the time the engines are made to ingest them and spit them out without causing any damage the uh Miracle on the Hudson Sully where the air bus had both engines knocked out that's a lottery odds type of event and it happened with very large birds and I just want to make sure that that's clear before muan Airport's

10:46 construction disputes over land acquisition created significant delays reflecting the tension surrounding the project Additionally the airport often contends with dense fog particularly during the winter months complicating visibility and flight operations our source who is familiar with juu Airlines policy and procedures stated that they were surprised when the accident occurred noting that juu was actually one of the safer Airlines in South Korea we were shown some training materials and discovered juzu airline pilots Like Us and other Airline basic procedures were trained to continue an approach and land if they experienced a bird strike or loss of power while on

11:32 Final Approach so why did the pilots then make the decision to go around and when did they make that decision to find out more about what actually happened the investigators would like to look at the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder however South Korean authorities are reporting almost 4 minutes of the data is missing from both of these devices the final 4 minutes of the the flight the 4 minutes of the emergency the four minutes that would answer a whole lot of these questions their words are that the final four minutes were not even recorded possibly due to a complete electrical failure yet we know the radios work during the final four minutes how is it

12:17 possible that the CVR and the FDR stop recording on a Boeing 737800 as we mentioned in the previous report the FAA required all airliners to have an alternative power source in 2003 so that if the airplane lost power in the engines batteries or some other alternate power source would continue to operate critical systems like the radios the instruments and the CVR and the FDR this plane was built in 2009 by Boeing and delivered to Ryan a which we'll get to in a moment but it's always possible that rin a did not adhere to the FAA requirements on the alternative power source for the CVR f but talking to 737 Pilots I had one said

13:03 I cannot imagine Boeing delivering a non-compliant aircraft according to South Korea reports after the crash the FDR was first inspected by the aviation and Railway accident investigation board the a aib which is under the ministry of land infrastructure and transport however after finding the data missing the FDR was sent to Washington to the ntsp and we're waiting for the NTSB to report their findings the CVR has remained in South Korea as far as we know questions began to swirl as to what would cause the data to be missing would a power loss cause the CVR to stop recording and again speaking to the 737800 pilots with the question what

13:52 event could cause the alternative power source required to power the CVR and FDR to stop and no 37 pilot could think of any event that would cause this certainly not a bird Strike One Pilot even added that a bird strike is well within the requirements to still be able to record the CVR and FDR remember the aircraft has been reported established on Final possibly gear down when the bird strike occurred and I'm hoping that the answers are forthcoming because accuracy now can prevent further tragedies in the future we can't fix it if we don't know what happened and there are 179 families that deserve to know the truth as I mentioned the aircraft in

14:37 question a 737800 was originally built in 2009 and delivered to Ryan a and was operated by Ryan a until February of 2017 when it was transferred to juu a the FAA requires that both the CVR or combin CVR FDR to have a backup power supply providing power to these devices of the aircraft loses power the requirement to have at least 10 minutes of electrical power to operate the CVR was added in 2008 as I mentioned before Boeing's usual procedure is to comply with this on all orders even those intended for international deliveries however as the aircraft was delivered to Ryan a the jurisdiction fell outside the FAA we did some research and discovered

15:22 Ryan ER falls under the Irish Aviation Authority and the European Union Aviation safety agency and both of these agencies adopted similar requirements that the FAA has meaning the CVR at the least should have remained operational all the way through the attempted belly landing and impact with the concrete barrier unless somewhere after being transferred to juu Airlines the system was changed by somebody the CVR and FDR both located in the tail of the aircraft usually one on the left and one on the right side which makes recovery easier for authorities our source indicated this accident reminded them of the Korean airflight 801 accident which was

16:08 a scheduled flight from Soul to Guam that crashed on August 6 1997 while attempting to land at Antonio bwan Pat International Airport the Boeing 747 300 carrying 254 people struck a hillside approximately 3.3 mi from the runway of the 254 passenger ERS and crew 228 died the accident was largely attributed to a combination of human error miscommunication in the cockpit and possibly cultural factors the crew particularly the captain was under significant stress due to poor weather conditions and a lack of updated weather information the captain and experienced pilot failed to properly adhere to

16:53 standard approach procedures and ignored the warnings from the flight crew when they got too low the first officer despite concerns did not challenge the captain's decisions reflecting a hierarchical and deferential cockpit culture common in South Korea Aviation at the time this failure in communication and Leadership ultimately contributed to the crash the incident led to significant changes in Korean heirs training and cockpit communication practices particularly emphasizing crew Resource Management CRM which encourages open communic ation and questioning Authority when necessary for safety we spoke with our source and asked the question could culture have played a role here and they describe South Korean

17:40 culture as having a a strong tie to obeying Authority and respecting your elders and through some research we discovered that in the jzu flight the captain was 45 years old and a former Korean Air Force pilot a common occurrence according to our source that most South Korean Airline pil Pilots come from the military the first officer was only 35 years old and had substantially less experience than the captain only 1600 hours compared to the captain's 6,800 hours and like the Korean airflight 801 did the first officer failed to question the captain the cockpit voice recorder would give us this information under the FAA airline pilots today are generally required to have 1500 hours before flying either

18:26 left seat or right seat there are ceptions and I'm not going to get into all that but this 1500 hour requirement for both Pilots came after the 2009 colan air crash up to that point only the captain was required to have the 1500 hours but that's the US not everywhere else a 1600 hour first officer in the US would mean someone who is brand new in South Korea he might have become a first officer with significantly fewer hours the flight Crews names have still been withheld at this point the accident has led to changes already being implemented by the South Korean government safety inspectors from the a aib identified nine different airport locations around the country that had something within

19:12 the safety zone of the runway including several other concrete barriers and all of these locations now will be addressed removing the risk of this particular type of result to occur from a long Landing the government in partnership with other lowcost carriers who fly in and out of South Korea have agreed to reduce the number of flights each aircraft flies within a given period of time giving more time for maintenance and inspections but the biggest changes are the ones that need to come from the truth about what happened and we need to know we did ask our source whether they thought the investigation into the crash would be affected by the political instability that's currently present in South Korea and they replied with maybe

19:58 reflecting on how the media plays a part in South Korea often not addressing the facts and instead focusing on different aspects of a story to drive a narrative H our South Korea Source said that the media in South Korea was very quick after the crash to point the finger at Boeing and if it was a mechanical issue we need to know that so that we can fix it from happening again but I hope that they can find the crucial final four minutes of the cockpit voice and flight data no matter if it's embarrassing to one group or pulls back the curtain on deeper problems it's critical to have the truth to be able to fix it and I hope that they'll be able to do that and that's my takeaway even in my own life when I've done something wrong I need to

20:43 be accurate to be truthful to own it and that's the only way that I can fix it thanks to our sponsors who make this channel possible like Marshall Protective Services NPS protects.com and the Best glasses out there for under helmets and headsets Flying Eyes optics.com use our discount code taking off all caps one word for 10% off and please visit the links to all our sponsors in the description below for our earlier report on the juu Airlines crash you can watch that right here and remember Superior judgment trumps Superior skills stay safe out there [Music]