Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "179 dead, 2 survivors after South Korean Airlines crash" video.

Keep in mind that one of those planes was shot down by Russians and that on the whole, airplane crashes are way down from where they used to be. For example, the US has only had one plane crash that resulted in multiple fatalities since 2020. And in that case it was 10 people in a small plane. Korea wouldn't have many due to the size of the country and that most of the countries that those carriers fly to are going to have their own regulations and their own inspections to comply with on top of whatever regulations there are locally. It's probably why this is the worst crash they've ever had.
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Thanks, that looked like a wall. A brake failure, pilot overshooting the runway a bit, the landing gear just not deploying are things that don't happen commonly, but they are things that do happen if you have enough planes landing. Designing airports is hard, but the calculations to estimate the amount of force that the building would need to sustain and the plane would suffer from a collision aren't that complicated, depending on what's on the other side, they could even have designed the building to have a system similar to what's used to stop runaway semis on steep passes. But really, there's a reason why they try not to have anything in the flight path like that for planes to run into if they can help it.
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Yes, and it kind of blows my mind that there were no measures in place to protect against this. This specific situation of the landing gear outright not being deployed is rare, but there are a number of other things that can lead a plane to overshoot the end of the runway, sometimes at nearly full take off speed. The building shouldn't have been there and if they had to put it htere, there should have been something along the lines of what they use to stop runaway semis on mountain passes.
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You think they aren't trying? Even if you ignore the impact on wildlife, the airline mechanics probably don't like cleaning up the mess of something large an meaty going through the engine.
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We'll have to see what the deal with the landing gear was, but the construction of the plane's structure is probably not an issue. A plane constructed to handle this impact would be completely impractical to fly for commercial use.
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This isn't gun violence and this isn't the US. Something will be done, because something is pretty much always done as a result of these instances. One of the areas where governments seem to do a pretty good job of getting it right is aviation. It's part of why these crashes have gotten to be so rare. Most of the time, everybody gets where they're going safe, if there is a crash, most of the time the survivors outnumber the dead. In rare instances you get this where everybody, or almost everybody dies. Keep in mind tht the elites that make the rules often rely on commercial aircraft themselves, so there isn't the level of incentive to not address the issues that arise in a substantive way.
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@sergeant_salty Are they constructed in a similar fashion? Having a wall is one thing, but it should be engineered to stop planes without completely annihilating them like we see in the footage. They've been using barrels of water and similar to protect car drivers that previously would have been killed running into the leading edge of jersey barriers for quite a while. Obviously, planes aren't necessarily as structurally sound as the cars being driven in the US and they are a lot larger, but it's still doable. It looks like the runway wasn't designed to handle the situation where the landing gear were inoperable. Which is rare, but it is clearly possible.
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We'll have to see what caused that. It could be pilot error, or it could be a maintenance issue, or it could be the usual Boeing incompetence.
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