SEOUL, South Korea – The remains of a duck were found in both engines of a Jeju Air plane that crashed last month, according to a preliminary report Monday, as South Korean officials are still trying to determine what was the cause. What is the cause of the deadliest air disaster on earth?
A six-page report released by South Korean authorities a month after the crash said both engines of the Boeing 737-800 jet contained DNA from Baikal tails, a type of migratory duck. which goes to South Korea for the winter in large flocks.
But the report offered no preliminary conclusions about what might have caused the plane’s landing gear to deploy without landing gear, and why the flight data recorders stopped recording in the last four minutes of the flight.
On December 29, a Jeju Air flight from Bangkok overshot the runway at Moan Airport when it made an emergency landing and crashed into an embankment containing navigation devices, called localizers, with 181 people and crew on board. All but two of the members were killed.
“After hitting the embankment, there was a fire and a partial explosion. Both engines were buried in the earthen embankment mound, and the forward part of the embankment was scattered 30-200 meters,” the accident scene report said. said while providing new images.
The localizer helps navigate the aircraft approaching the runway, and the reinforced concrete and earth structure at Moan Airport supports the system’s antennas, experts said, adding to the potential for casualties. The number is more.
The report says its next steps are that the probe will tear apart the engines, examine the components in-depth, analyze in-flight and air traffic control data, and look for embankments, localizers and evidence of bird strikes. Will investigate.
“All these investigative activities are aimed at determining the exact cause of the accident,” he said.
The report highlighted preliminary findings by South Korean investigators that were shared with the victims’ families on Saturday, including the pilots’ awareness of a flock of birds on the plane’s final approach.
The accident report states that the exact time of the bird strike reported by the pilots remains unconfirmed, but that the aircraft “declared a bird strike emergency (Mayday x 3) during a go-around.” “.
The report did not say what could have caused the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) and flight data recorder (FDR) to stop recording simultaneously before the pilots declared an emergency.
It said the plane was flying at 161 knots (185 mph) at an altitude of 498 feet when the flight recorders stopped recording about 1.1 nautical miles (1.3 miles) from the runway.
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), an agency of the United Nations, requires accident investigators to submit a preliminary report within 30 days of the accident and to make the final report public within 12 months. Encourages.
South Korea’s Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Board has shared its report with ICAO, Thailand and the United States and France, the home countries of the plane and engine makers, an official said on Monday.
