Cause of South Korea plane crash unclear as officials focus on bird strikes
Cause of South Korea plane crash unclear as officials focus on bird strikes
Experts say bird strikes are relatively common and should not have been enough to cause landing gear failure
Even with a landing gear failure nothing else made sense: landing 2/3rds way up runway, no flaps, excess speed etc
Complete loss of power due to strikes on all engines. The ram air turbine is not enough to move all those parts.
Boeing 737 allows for gravity drop of landing gear which would work even with total power loss
Ram air turbine is sufficient for control surfaces, which is what it's designed for
There’s no ram air turbine on a 737.
It should be obvious that we don't know exactly why a plane crashed barely a day ago.
Investigating takes time and since the pilots are dead they'll have to reconstruct the situation from the wreakage, flight data recorders and whatever other information they can piece together.
Expect a few weeks before getting a rough theory and a year or two for a final report after it's done bouncing between all the various authorities who will want to be involved and the manufacturers.
It doesn't matter what caused the plane to crash. The deaths are the fault if the airport and its concrete ILS antennas