FLYERS were left panicking in mid-air after another South Korean Boeing suffered a landing gear malfunction hours after the deadly crash that killed 179.
It’s reportedly the same landing gear issue that caused the Jeju Air flight to smash into a runway embankment on Sunday in Muan and explode.
The Jeju Air flight took off from Gimpo and returned an hour later[/caption]
Jeju Air Flight 7C101 departed from Gimpo Airport for Jeju at 6.37am but was found to have the defective landing gear an hour later and forced to return.
Some 21 of the 161 passengers on board the Boeing 737-800 decided not to get back onto the flight saying they were too anxious to fly again.
Jeju Air transferred the remaining passengers to a replacement flight of the same model Boeing and departed for Jeju again at 8.30am.
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