Each engines of Boeing 737-800 jet that crashed in December killing 179 contained stays of Baikal teals, a migratory duck that flies to South Korea for winter.
The engines of a aircraft that crashed in South Korea final month contained chicken stays, a preliminary investigation into the nation’s worst aviation catastrophe has discovered.
The six-page report launched on Monday by South Korean authorities stated each engines of the Boeing 737-800 jet had DNA from Baikal Teals, a kind of migratory duck that flies to South Korea for winter in big flocks.
Hen bloodstains and feathers have been “discovered on every” engine, it added.
Nonetheless, the report offered no preliminary conclusions about what might have triggered the Jeju Air aircraft to land with out its touchdown gear deployed, and why flight information recorders stopped recording within the last 4 minutes of the flight.
A probe being performed by South Korean and US investigators continues.
‘Group of birds’
The aircraft was flying from Thailand to Muan in South Korea on December 29 when it crash-landed and exploded right into a fireball after slamming right into a concrete barrier.
The catastrophe killed 179 of the 181 passengers and crew of the aircraft.
“The pilots recognized a gaggle of birds whereas approaching runway 01, and a safety digicam filmed HL8088 coming near a gaggle of birds throughout a go-around,” the report added, referring to the Jeju Air jet’s registration quantity.
After the air visitors management tower cleared the plane to land, it suggested the pilots to train warning in opposition to potential chicken strikes at 8:58am, the report stated.
Only a minute later, each the voice and information recording programs stopped functioning, whereas the aircraft was already at an altitude of about 152 metres (500 ft) and simply 2km (1.2 miles) from the runway.
Seconds after the recording programs failed, the pilots declared Mayday because of a chicken strike and tried a stomach touchdown.
The aircraft exploded in flames when it collided with a concrete embankment throughout its touchdown, prompting questions on why that kind of barricade was in place on the finish of the runway.
Final week, authorities stated they might change such concrete obstacles at airports nationwide with “breakable buildings”.
The captain had greater than 6,800 flight hours, whereas the primary officer had 1,650 hours, in keeping with the report.
Each have been killed within the crash, which was survived solely by two flight attendants.
The Worldwide Civil Aviation Group (ICAO), a UN company, requires accident investigators to supply a preliminary report inside 30 days of the accident and encourages a last report back to be made public inside 12 months.
South Korea’s Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Board has shared its report with ICAO and Thailand, in addition to the US and France, that are the house states of the aircraft and engine producers.
