A preliminary report on the Jeju Air plane that crashed in South Korea in December killing 179 on board reveals evidence of a bird strike. The report says that both engines of the plane contained duck remains but it provided no conclusions about what caused the plane to land without its landing gear deployed or why flight data stopped recording in the final four minutes of the flight.
Authorities have discovered signs of a bird strike on a Jeju passenger plane that went down in South Korea last December, resulting in the deaths of 179 people
The authorities are focusing on a possible bird strike coupled with the functioning of the localizer landing guidance structure.
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 preliminary accident report released by South Korea’s Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Board on Monday said that feathers and bird blood stains were found in both engines. The Boeing 737-800 skidded off the runaway at Muan International Airport on Dec. 29 after its landing gear failed to deploy, slamming into a concrete structure and bursting into flames.
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The exact cause of the Jeju Air crash remains unclear, and the investigation is complicated because the black boxes stopped recording four minutes before impact.
South Korean said a month after the crash, which killed 179 people, that the Boeing 737-800’s engines contained DNA from Baikal teals, a type of migratory duck.
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