The plane didn't hit a concrete fence. Right after the runway there was a strong concrete block that housed some antennas. Those antennas didn't need such reinforced structure. This accident would have been much less severe, if that concrete block weren't there.
this post was submitted on 29 Dec 2024
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Honest question, do you think the outcome would've been significantly better without the reinforced block?
I don't know enough about the layout, the plane, etc, to have a good perspective.
The tower warned the flight of birds in the area
The crew transmitted an emergency message just before the crash
Sounds like it was a crash, not a lack of landing gear. Though the timing on those messages would be informative, I don't see the crew sending a mayday once they impacted the ground.
So I'm wondering if that wall made any difference at all (again, I really don't know, just thinking out loud). I do wonder why they'd construct something so robust in a risk path.
The plane belly landed and slid on the runway. If there were enough flat ground for the plane to come to a stop, the passengers would have been more or less fine (assuming the plane wouldn't have caught on fire). Instead, the plane turned into a fireball immediately it hit the wall. Of course, there were other obstacles behind the runway which the plane might have hit, but the plane would have also lost some speed before hitting them.
Me: "Hah, an Embraer got shot down by an AA weapon and half the passengers survived, I'll bet it's a Boeing."
The article: "737-800 ... Landing gear failed to deploy"
Fucking hell, it's always a fucking Boeing.
I feel like "burst into flames" while technically correct doesn't exactly describe the event