Traces of chook strikes have been discovered within the engines of the Jeju Air aircraft which crashed in South Korea final month, killing all however two of its 181 passengers, in accordance with a preliminary report.
Feathers and chook blood stains have been present in each engines of the plane which crashed at Muan Worldwide Airport on 29 December, the report launched by South Korea’s Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Board stated.
“The samples were sent to specialised organisations for DNA analysis, and a domestic organisation identified them as belonging to Baikal teals,” the report stated, referring to a migratory duck.
The Boeing 737-800’s two black bins – the flight knowledge recorder and cockpit voice recorder – stopped recording about 4 minutes earlier than the crash, the report added, probably complicating efforts to find the reason for the accident.
Solely two crew members seated close to the rear of the aircraft survived South Korea’s worst home civil aviation catastrophe at Muan, about 180 miles south of Seoul.
The plane was getting back from Bangkok, Thailand, when it did not deploy its touchdown gear, skidding off the runway and crashing into concrete boundaries earlier than bursting into flames.
All victims have been South Korean besides for 2 Thai nationals.
It comes after South Korean authorities introduced final week the concrete boundaries through which the aircraft crashed, and which host antennas that information plane throughout landings, can be faraway from airports throughout the nation.
Consultants have beforehand stated the huge berm supporting navigation antennas on the finish of the runway seemingly made the crash extra lethal than it might need been in any other case.
Investigators earlier stated air site visitors controllers warned the pilots about attainable chook strikes two minutes earlier than the plane issued a misery sign confirming one had occurred, after which the pilots tried an emergency touchdown.
The preliminary report stated the pilots additionally observed a gaggle of birds whereas approaching the runway on the Muan Airport and {that a} safety digicam filmed the aircraft coming near birds throughout an aborted touchdown as nicely.
The transport ministry stated the preliminary report has been despatched to the Worldwide Civil Aviation Group, Thailand, the USA and France.
It stated the aircraft was constructed within the US and its engines in France.
