Mid-air panic as ANOTHER South Korea Boeing has ‘landing gear malfunction’ hours after deadly crash that killed 179

FLYERS were left panicking in mid-air after another South Korean Boeing suffered a landing gear malfunction hours after the deadly crash that killed 179.

It’s the same landing gear issue that caused the Jeju Air flight to smash into a runway embankment on Sunday in Muan and explode.

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The Jeju Air flight took off from Gimpo and returned an hour later[/caption]

Jeju Air Flight 7C101 departed from Gimpo Airport for Jeju but was found to have the defective landing gear.

About an hour later, the Boeing 737-800 returned to Gimpo.

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