Jeju Air flight 7C101, which took off at 6:37 a.m. December 30 (local time), was discovered to have a landing gear problem shortly after takeoff.
The crew decided to fly the plane back to Seoul’s Gimpo airport and landed safely at 7:25 a.m. the same day, Yonhap cited an unnamed source.
179 people died in the Jeju Air plane crash tragedy, Korea mourned
Afterwards, Jeju Air notified 161 passengers on flight 7C101 about the above incident.
According to the source, the flight that was just affected was a Boeing 737-800, and had a landing gear error like what happened to the flight that crashed the day before at Muan International Airport, killing 179 people.
Image of Jeju Air flight 7C2216 when it skidded on the runway at Muan International Airport on December 29
Jeju Air currently operates 39 Boeing 737 aircraft out of its total fleet of 41 aircraft. A representative of Jeju Air has not commented on the above information
On the same day, acting President of South Korea Choi Sang-mok directed an urgent safety inspection of the country’s entire aviation system. The inspection will be carried out after the recovery work related to the Jeju Air plane crash on December 29 is completed.
On December 29, South Korea experienced its deadliest aviation accident, when Boeing 737-800 flight 7C2216 landed on its belly and slid off the end of the runway, crashing into a wall at Muan International Airport and exploding.
Korean officials confirmed that 179 people on the plane died, with only 2 survivors, both flight attendants.
