A Jeju Air Co. jet suffered a landing-gear malfunction on Monday before returning safely to Seoul, the airline’s second aircraft to experience the fault in two days.
South Korean authorities said they would probe the latest incident, which comes a day after 179 people died in the country’s worst civil-aviation disaster.
The plane’s crew discovered a signal warning of a malfunction in the plane’s landing gear after take-off from Seoul, a spokesman for Jeju Air said at a briefing Monday.
Although the pilot managed to get the gear to work after communicating with the airline’s maintenance center, the decision was made to return to the airport for a checkup, the spokesman said. The plane landed safely at 7:20 a.m. according to Flightradar24 tracking data. Passengers were booked on alternative flights.
The Jeju Air spokesman didn’t confirm what model the plane was. Yonhap News had earlier reported the aircraft was a Boeing Co. 737-800, the same type of aircraft involved in Sunday’s crash.
(Updates with confirmation from the airline and additional information in the third, fourth and sixth paragraphs.)
