A Jeju Air flight experienced a landing gear problem shortly after takeoff from Gimpo International Airport, forcing it to return to the airport. This incident follows a crash of another Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 at Muan International Airport the previous day, attributed to a suspected landing gear failure.
A South Korea n passenger jet returned to the airport of departure following take-off Monday over a landing gear issue, a day after a similar malfunction caused a crash during landing, Yonhap news agency reported, as cited by Xinhua. Jeju Air flight 7C101 departed from Gimpo International Airport in western Seoul for the southern resort island of Jeju at 6:37 am local time (2137 GMT Sunday). A landing gear issue was found shortly after it took off.
The Boeing 737-800 returned to the Gimpo airport at 7:25 am. local time after informing the 161 passengers on board. Earlier, a Boeing 737-800 passenger jet of the Jeju Air crashed while landing at Muan International Airport, around 290 km southwest of Seoul, on the previous day. Because of the estimated landing gear failure, the airplane landed without wheels, skidded off runway and crashed into the outer wall of the runway, with its fuselage broken apart and catching fire
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