Authorities are still trying to figure out what caused the deadliest air disaster on South Korean soil, with a preliminary report released on Monday ( Jan 27 ) revealing that both engines of the Jeju Air plane that crashed last month contained duck remains.
The Boeing 737-800 jet’s two vehicles contained DNA from Baikal Teals, a type of migrant bird that winters in large flocks, according to a six-page report released by North Vietnamese government one fortnight after the accident.
However, the statement made no first conclusions about what might have caused the aircraft to land without its getting items in motion, and why trip data recorders stopped recording during the last four minutes of the trip.
All but two of the 181 people and staff members on board the Jeju Air flight from Bangkok on December 29 overshot the tarmac at Muan Airport as a result of an emergency stomach landing and crashed into an embankment containing tracking technology known as localisers.
” After the fall into the hillside, fireplace and a limited explosion occurred. Both vehicles were buried in the embankment’s land hill, and the upper aircraft scattered up to 30-200m from the embankment”, the statement said, providing some new pictures of the incident page.
The localiser aids an aircraft’s transportation as it approaches the airport, and authorities believe that the Muan airport’s reinforced concrete and earth structure supporting the state’s wings probable contributed to the high death burden.
The research will break down the engines, study components in breadth, analyse in-flight and air traffic control data, and check the slope, localisers and evidence of bird strike, the report said about its future steps.
” These all-out investigation activities aim to determine the accurate cause of the accident”, it said.