The first report on last month’s Jeju Air crash in South Korea confirmed traces of bird strikes in the plane’s engines, though officials haven’t determined the cause of the accident that killed 179 people.
The first report on last month’s Jeju Air crash in South Korea confirmed traces of bird strikes in the plane’s engines, though officials haven’t determined the cause of the accident that killed all but two of the 181 people on board.
“The samples were sent to specialised organisations for DNA analysis, and a domestic organisation identified them as belonging to Baikal teals,” the report said, referring to a migratory duck. The Boeing 737-800 skidded off the runaway at Muan International Airport on December 29 after its landing gear failed to deploy, slamming into a concrete structure and bursting into flames. The flight was returning from Bangkok and all of the victims were South Koreans except for two Thai nationals.
The preliminary report said the pilots also noticed a group of birds while approaching the runway at the Muan airport and that a security camera filmed the plane coming close to birds during an aborted landing as well.The report said authorities will disassemble the engines, examine their components in depth, analyse the black box and air traffic control data, and investigate the embankment, localiser and bird strike evidence.
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