Boeing737 crash in South Korea

[angry turnip]

A Boeing 737-800 has crashed whilst landing at Muan Airport in South Korea, video shows the undercarriage had not come down.Another video shows the same aircraft having a bird strike on it's approach. 177 have died in the accident.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4glr85l2ldt

https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/468716

[keegster]

Apparently most of the aviation experts on Twitter were completely hung up on the fact that there was a wall at the end of the runway which the plane crashed into and not the fact that the plane had no landing gear deployed.

[angry turnip]

It`s a very strange accident,one that should have been survivable had the wall not been there.There is a wall around the entire airport,although the 01 end has a little more run off area.
The initial approach was to runway 01,but then changed to opposite end runway 19,due to a mayday call from the aircraft.
The big question is why was the landing gear not down? Perhaps the flight crew were so preoccupied with the bird strike they forgot to lower the gear,it's unlikely a bird strike would cause a failure of the entire landing gear system.

That`s probably why the twittering was all about the wall.It seems the flight crew got the aircraft down roughly mid runway,which appeared stable enough,it seems that the collision with the ILS localizer antenna array and wall is what caused the aircraft disintegration and fire.
More run off space may well have had a different outcome,and less loss of life.

Attached screen grab shows the ILS localizer the aircraft hit,and the perimeter wall,which a road runs along side.The entire airfield is enclosed by a wall.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/Vu5W8aqHAqYYNZsk7