Jeju Air Flight 2216 was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by Jeju Air from Suvarnabhumi Airport near Bangkok, Thailand, to Muan International Airport in Muan County, South Korea. On 29 December 2024, the Boeing 737-800 operating the flight was approaching Muan, when a bird strike occurred. The pilots issued a mayday alert, performed a go-around, and on the second landing attempt, the landing gear did not deploy and the airplane belly-landed well beyond the normal touchdown zone. It overran the runway at high speed, collided with the approach lighting system and crashed into a berm encasing a concrete structure that supported an antenna array for the instrument landing system (ILS). The collision instantly killed all 175 passengers and four of the six crew members. The surviving two cabin crew were seated in the rear of the plane, which detached from the fuselage, and were rescued with injuries. Both the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder stopped functioning a few seconds before the mayday call, and evidence of a bird strike with a species of migratory duck was later found in both engines.
