All 179 passengers on Jeju Air flight would have survived if concrete wall met standards to break on impact
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The wreckage of Jeju Air Flight 7C2216 and the wall at the end of the runway that the plane hit, are seen in Muan, South Korea, on Dec 30, 2024. A computer simulation ordered by the government showed that everyone on board would have survived if the concrete berm had been made of materials that easily broke apart. (Photo: Chang W Lee/The New York Times)
SEOUL — Everyone on board a Jeju Air flight that crashed and killed 179 people just over a year ago would have survived if a concrete wall at the end of the runway had instead been built with materials that break apart easily, a previously undisclosed report to the South Korean government says.
The report, obtained by The New York Times on Friday, drew the c
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