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.
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