SEOUL – The primary report on final month’s Jeju Air crash in South Korea confirmed fowl strikes within the aircraft’s engines, although officers haven’t decided the reason for the accident that killed all but two of the 181 people on board.
The preliminary accident report launched Monday mentioned feathers and fowl blood stains had been present in each engines.
“The samples had been despatched to specialised organizations for DNA evaluation, and a home group recognized them as belonging to Baikal Teals,” the report mentioned, referring to a migratory duck.
The report additionally mentioned the aircraft’s black field stopped recording about 4 minutes earlier than the crash.
South Korea earlier introduced that it’ll take away a concrete construction on the finish of the airport’s runway that was concerned within the crash.
Some specialists have mentioned that Muan Worldwide Airport’s localizer — a set of antennas in a concrete construction that information plane throughout landings — doubtless made the crash of the Jeju Air aircraft worse.
The Boeing 737-800 skidded off the airport’s runaway on Dec. 29 after its touchdown gear did not deploy, slamming into the concrete construction and bursting into flames. Many observers mentioned the construction ought to have been made with lighter supplies that might break extra simply upon affect.
Investigators have mentioned that air visitors controllers warned the pilot about doable fowl strikes two minutes earlier than the plane issued a misery sign confirming {that a} fowl strike had occurred, after which the pilot tried an emergency touchdown.
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