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Two more airplanes nearly crashed hours after the Jeju Airlines tragedy in South Korea that resulted in 179 deaths, the New York Post reports.
An Air Canada flight skidded down the runway after a landing gear caught fire as the plane touched down in Nova Scotia Saturday (December 28) night. The incident took place at Halifax Stanfield International Airport at around 9:30 p.m. local time, which was about two and a half hours after the Jeju Airlines flight crashed in South Korea at 9:02 a.m. local time Sunday (December 29) morning.
KLM Flight 1204, which was traveling from Oslo, Noway, to Amsterdam, was also reported to have experienced issues shortly after takeoff Saturday night. The plane was forced to make an emergency landing, as which point it slid off the runway.
No passengers were reported to be injured during the Air Canada and KLM incidents.
Jeju Airlines Flight 2216 crashed at Muan International Airport in South Korea after a reported bird strike, which caused its landing gear to fail, resulting in the aircraft skidding into a concrete barrier and bursting into flames. Only two crew members survived the crash.
All three incidents took place days after an Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash that resulted in 38 deaths near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan, which Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev claimed was damaged by Russian forces after it traveled "from outside on Russian territory" via ABC News.