SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The primary file on final month’s Jeju Air crash in South Korea showed strains of fowl moves within the airplane’s engines, although officers haven’t made up our minds the reason for the coincidence that killed all however two of the 181 other folks on board.
The initial coincidence file launched by way of South Korea’s Aviation and Railway Twist of fate Investigation Board on Monday mentioned that feathers and fowl blood stains have been present in each engines.
“The samples have been despatched to specialised organizations for DNA research, and a home group recognized them as belonging to Baikal teals,” the file mentioned, relating to a migratory duck.
The file additionally mentioned the airplane’s two black bins — the flight knowledge recorder and cockpit voice recorder — stopped recording about 4 mins earlier than the crash. This might complicate efforts to search out the reason for the crash.
The Boeing 737-800 skidded off the runaway at Muan World Airport on Dec. 29 after its touchdown tools didn’t deploy, slamming right into a concrete construction and bursting into flames. The flight was once coming back from Bangkok and all of the sufferers have been South Koreans with the exception of for 2 Thai nationals.
Many analysts mentioned the concrete construction, which housed a collection of antennas referred to as a localizer that guides plane right through landings, must had been constructed with lighter fabrics that would ruin extra simply upon affect. South Korea’s Delivery Ministry introduced final week that it’ll take away the concrete construction on the airport.
Investigators previous mentioned that air visitors controllers warned the pilots about conceivable fowl moves two mins earlier than the plane issued a misery sign confirming {that a} fowl strike had befell, and then the pilots tried an emergency touchdown.
The initial file mentioned the pilots additionally spotted a gaggle of birds whilst drawing near the runway on the Muan airport and {that a} safety digital camera filmed the airplane coming as regards to birds right through an aborted touchdown as neatly.
The file mentioned government will disassemble the engines, read about their elements extensive, analyze the black field and air visitors keep watch over knowledge, and examine the embankment, localizer and fowl strike proof.
“Those all-out investigation actions intention to as it should be decide the reason for the coincidence,” the file mentioned.
The Delivery Ministry mentioned the initial file has been despatched to the World Civil Aviation Group, Thailand, the US and France. It mentioned the airplane was once constructed within the U.S. and its engines in France.
It mentioned the Muan airport will stay closed till April 18.