Bird remains in plane engine: South Korea crash report

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Bird remains in plane engine: South Korea ****** report

Bird strikes in the engines of a plane that crashed in South Korea, killing 179 people, have been confirmed in a first report into the incident but officials are yet to determine the cause of the accident.

The preliminary accident report released on Monday said feathers and bird blood stains were found in both of the Jeju Air plane’s engines.

“The samples were sent to specialised organisations for DNA analysis, and a domestic organisation identified them as belonging to Baikal Teals,” the report said, referring to a migratory duck.

The report also said the plane’s ****** box stopped recording about four minutes before the ******.

South Korea previously announced it would remove a concrete structure at the end of the airport’s runway that was involved in the ******.

Some experts have said that Muan International Airport’s localiser – a set of antennas in a concrete structure that guides aircraft during landings – likely made the ****** of the Jeju Air plane worse.

The Boeing 737-800 skidded off the airport’s runaway on December 29 after its landing gear failed to deploy, slamming into the concrete structure and bursting into flames.

Many observers said the structure should have been made with lighter materials that could break more easily upon impact.

Investigators have said that air traffic controllers warned the pilot about possible bird strikes two minutes before the aircraft issued a distress signal confirming that a bird strike had occurred, after which the pilot attempted an emergency landing.

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