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. i'm mike, look who is good to have you with us. will leaders have been sending condolences to south korea after the countries deadly as aviation disaster on home soil, a 179 passengers and crew aboard the j true air fly were killed when the boeing 730 $7800.00 skidded off the runway at one international airport and burst into flames . only 2 crew members survived. investigators have recovered both flight recorders as they try to piece together what happened. this is the moment the shows you at playing scapes down the runway. that's a new one. as halting south korea default crushing into a wall and bursting into flames. emergency services a working into the night, searching the wreckage,

the fire department say the plane was almost completely destroyed in the blaze. and identifying the deceased is proving difficult. jesuit quickly issued an apology, saying they are doing all they come to respond to the incident. when y'all i bowed my head and apologize to all those who cherry street where somebody might somebody above all, i would like to express my deepest condolences and apologies to the families of those passengers who lost their lives in this accident. in the south korea's acting president charlie's son mark arrived him one on sunday afternoon. he pledged at all necessary government results as would be available for the families that was on board. it's an anxious wait for the worst possible news.

earlier journalists can move in, spoke to dw from the crash site and describe how the victims families are being assisted at the airport. um i think speaking to the very families of the passengers um who are actually on board, the crashed airplane and her breathing seemed continued to unfold here as one international airport. that more than $100.00 family members and gathered in a meeting room here to receive a page about their loved ones. all day long at room looking teacher wrapped in a way of grief. as families learned of the depth of their loved voice of the bodies of the recovered a currently being housed in a temporary mortuary close to the crash site. i can speaking to one elderly couple who lost their son, daughter in law, in grandchild all at the parish. another. another lady passed hour after learning that her 2 children on board the, the aircraft had passed away in this crash. so all of very

difficult seed government authorities have said that the will give them all our efforts to assist these uh, breed families there. the will support them in their funeral procedures. uh those uh uh, families who would like to travel down here to the south western side of the country . i will be given that railway services by 3 a rail and the, the president that the acting president has concurred the seat, especially with disaster zone, which we all administrative, fiscal and budgetary measures. will be given as a priority here to the refills and this region of one. to for more on this, i'd like to welcome steven wright, he's the head of aviation in transport at the technological university of dublin. steven, right i, i want to be clear, we don't know anything conclusive yet, but some of the official suspect the crash could have been caused by

a bird strike. could you explain to of yours how small birds can bring down big plains? good evening. the problem with birds is that they can be ingested. this is a safe side apple, so it stretches out towards the se. and that means that you have problems with wild life with birds and such like so. it's possible. yeah, across coming into land and the, the, it's known that flux a birds are in the area. now this was given as a warning to the flight credit from what we understand from the transcripts, recorded from air traffic control on the ground. the birds getting jesting typically just into one engine, and that thing causes catastrophic damage on the engine itself. and although you lose the thrust, you also lose all the services by many hydraulics electric. so you might take a, this is a particular problem. there's so much at stake, i mean,

how often do bird strikes happen? and shouldn't there be security measures in place to at least minimize bird flux at airport to the wrong? is the simple on so and so the problem does occur or happen to works at london goswick unseen, but it's big invested into a british airway. 757 leaving from england. going to america, i think was one of the most real things about the same, including seeing bits of birds coming out the back of the engine fog coming out the engine exhaust from the fire extinguishers. and then what you go, the fire service rush to the run light in preparation for the emergency landing. so i've seen this 1st time. it does happen. the airports do mitigate the problem by um they have ground services that scare away the boats. you don't find any trees apple to near apple. it's because they mitigate that problem. by preventing the birds

from nesting and trace, they use of accounts and measures to escape the boats of why so they, they do take this into account. it just does happen occasionally. tell us why in your opinion, the airplane did not have its landing gear, lowered a call and give you a definitive answer in simple terms, we as looking at the video, there are some things that don't quite fit very well with my namely, it's apparent that the flight controls and the, the hydraulic systems on the flight controls there, hydraulically assisted, they weren't extended. so things like this boilers. but the landing gear, although it's normally expanded, i'm retracted using hydraulic services. there is a emergency freeform so you can pull a handling the floor on the aircraft unlocks all the landing gear. i'm not blocks. it makes the landing gear naturally for open up on the pilot then performs

a couple of movers. left them right a few times and that forces the landing gate down and that's part of the design of the cross to make sure that the way it was coming down before landing why the plane came down without his landing gear expanded. call and give you the on so, right, however, they've got the blank boxes and they will be interrogated to, to answer that question. again, this is layman stuff and we're talking largely to an audience of late people. why didn't the fire tenders lay a phone carpet on the runway when it was clear, the plane was attempting an emergency landing without wheels down? so the 1st thing that i would say in response to that is that the rum ways tend to be quite long. the, it's not like a 25 meters of broadcast spell and simply, you know, you check a few 1000 liters of a trip less time and problem solved rum weiss tend to say $22.00 and a half, 3 kilometers long. so you can give you an idea of how much time would be required

for that purpose, right? so the next big problem that you go is to say across the was intending to come straight in from the se, but then changed his mind, turned around and returned back in the opposite direction. you mentioned the fact that the runways along the video shows the plain coming off the tarmac and heating wall. i take it, it's standard for air strips at international airport to be surrounded by brick walls. now korea is a bit different throughout the countries. um, now what you probably haven't been explained is this apple like so many in career all shed by both the civil business and also the military side of the civil business, the military side of this effectively it's a protected area and i've, i've traveled to south career many, many tons of merits are grand. so obviously many have fields where they've got

brick walls with razor wire on the top of the lowest cape. i'm wanted visits as well, but they didn't hate from what i can say, the brit quote, the perimeter will around the if they, what they've done is hit a concrete structure that supports the instrument, low instrument landing system localized. so, um, at the end of the runway and its cloud through that and the high speed flats and shredded the croft. and that is adrian expert. steven, right in dublin, we thank you for your time, sir. thank you. let's look at some more stories making headlines as we speak, as are by john's present in either hom, aliya as a queue, as rush of shooting at an as a bunch on airlines passenger chat. before it cracked, he demanded a full admission of guilt and compensation accusing moscow of trying to cover up the truth. the crash and cassock stand. last wednesday killed 38 people. at

least 3 migrants have died trying to reach britain in a small boat. rescuers in northern france, assisted dozens of people on the beach with many suffering from hypothermia. this year has been one of the deadliest years on record for channel crossings, with the 76 recorded depths. at least 2 people died after multiple tornadoes ripped through the us states of texas, louisiana, and mississippi. many homes and schools were badly damaged or destroyed. thousands of people were affected by power outages, voters in croatia of going to the polls to elect a new president. the left leaning incumbent zorian, milan of edge has been critical of western support for ukraine. he's running against drug on from o. rots, the pro west candidate of the ruling probation, democratic union, and 6 other challenges to georgia, where mikhail,

a couple of, unless you've really has been sworn in as president, despite allegations that is election was illegitimate the far right former football or is supported by the pro kremlin georgia dream party, whose decision to suspend, he, you membership talks, has sparked months of protests. this is the moment, judges of position hoped, would never happen. to fall rights pro criminal, inform a soccer player taking the oath of office as a new president to any speech. make it a couple i should really promised to be nights the country may well be in a vehicle. i plan to be everyone's precedent, regardless of whether they like me or not. my future efforts will be directed towards the consolidation and to unification of society that sees that guides. yeah, maybe it's good. but outside outgoing liter salumi service really told support is in front of the presidential palace that she views the new and come with the

illegitimate and will fight on the about moving legitimacy comes from them. so i'm not sewell's is you claim next or that. and why there is no trust of the people that will be no legitimacy. murder about the verdict comparable. survivorship really did agree to vacate the presidential palace, but she's refusing to formally concede unless last october's disputed. paula, when she elections are held again, like many, but not old georgians. she claims the poll. what am i, the pro russian georgian dream policy was fraudulent. right now we're also posting our legitimate presence elements of this release. she represents as an international arizona. uh, so for us, she's the only hope right now there is no new president is present. the problem is that obviously said the people i'm not even paid attention to. it's also the

ceremony that they tried to help holding the parliament. that was a disgrace without retire cabinet attached mealy will be a great president. he is my president. he is everyone's president. he's a patry all take pass and the fact is, the most important thing that's in the post of president is largely ceremonial. but it has come to represent the tensions between georgians who see the future in the you, in line with the constitution and those who drive to see the country return to russia's obits and who are now in power. and a reminder of our top story, a passenger plane has crashed in south korea, chewing everyone on board, except for 2 crew members. both flight recorders happen with coverage as authorities investigate the cause of the disaster. the government has declared a week of morning the wandering dw news of next restoring the faith

in germany's national soccer team. that's on sports life after the break. as always, there's more news on our website, the w dot com and of course on social media at dw is our hand. mike, look, thanks a lot. the i sorry. i went on 6 times to chris county, more people than ever on the worldwide in such a better price than mine. and one great tommy is very hard to say very difficult to find out about time on student info. my grands updates innovation green.