The deadliest air accident ever in South Korea killed 179 people on Sunday, when an airliner belly-landed and skidded off the end of the runway, erupting in a fireball as it slammed into a wall at Muan International Airport.

    • @HappycamperNZEnglish
      13•7 days ago

      Once they unlock (mechanical) gravity can pull them down to lock. You just can’t get them up again and they create a lot of drag.

      • @kcufEnglish
        1•7 days ago

        Every plane is different and you can certainly get stuck with the gear up or unable to support the weight.

        • @HappycamperNZEnglish
          6•7 days ago

          For people scared of flying - it is actually shocking how redundant and safe air travel actually is.

          The number of things that can fail, thinga they have thought about and have a perfectly flyable and landable aircraft is one of the great achievements in human history. They don’t even let pilots eat the same in-flight meal because of the possibility of food poisoning.

            • @HappycamperNZEnglish
              2•6 days ago

              Huh, seems like a weird change to make.

              • @[email protected]English
                2•6 days ago

                It was never a policy for most airlines and wouldn’t really help too much as well - the menu items that are different are thoroughly heated(multiple times) and the menu items that could be an issue (=are cold)are coming from the same source. Furthermore it is extremely rare for airline food to cause food poisoning (like really really rare) and even less likely for them to cause food poisoning that incapacitate someone so fast an diversion landing is not an option. (And long haul has medication against the worst symptoms onboard) Norovirus e.g. would be a far more likely problem (and there has been at least one diversion landing because of it) and that is not food related at all.