Seul, South Korea – Both Jeju plane engines that crashed last month south.
The six-page report published by the South Korean authorities one month after the accident said that both engines of the Boeing 737-800 plane contained DNA of Baikal Teals, a type of migratory duck that flies to South Korea for winter in large herds.
But the report did not provide initial conclusions about what it could have caused the plane to land without its deployed landing gear, and why the flight data registrars stopped registering in the last four minutes of the flight.
Jeju’s aerial flight from Bangkok on December 29 exceeded the track of Muan’s airport, since he made an emergency belly landing and crashed into a embankment containing navigation equipment, called locators, killing all but two of The 181 people and members of the crew on board.
“After the accident against the embankment, there was a fire and partial explosion. Both engines were buried in the ground of the embankment floor, and the front fuselage dispersed up to 30-200 meters of the embankment, ”said the report, providing some new photos of the accident site.
The locator helps to navigate an aircraft that focuses on the track, and the structure built of concrete and land reinforced at the Muan airport that supports the system antennas probably contributed to the high task of death, experts said .
The research will demolish the engines, examine the in -depth components, analyze the air traffic control data and investigate the embankment, the locators and the evidence of the bird strike, according to the report on their next steps.
“These total research activities aim to determine the precise cause of the accident,” he said.
The report highlighted a large part of the initial findings of South Korean researchers who were shared with the families of the victims on Saturday, including the consciousness of the pilots of a bird flock in the final approach of the plane.
The exact moment in which the pilots reported the bird strike remain without confirming, according to the accident report, but the aircraft “made an emergency statement (Mayday X 3) for a bird strike for a return.”
The report does not say what could have taken to the Voice recorder of the cabin (CVR) and the flight data recorder (FDR) to stop recording simultaneously just before the pilots declared the emergency.
The plane was at an altitude of 498 feet flying to 161 knots (185 mph) approximately 1.1 nautical miles (1.3 miles) of the track at the time the flight recorders stopped recording, he said.
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a UN Agency, requires that accident investigators produce a preliminary report within 30 days after the accident and encourages a final report to be made public within 12 months.
The Aviation and Railway Research Board of South Korea has shared its report with Icao, Thailand and the United States and France, which are the states of origin for aircraft and motor manufacturers, an official said on Monday.
