SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea will launch by Monday a preliminary report on final month’s Jeju Air aircraft crash that killed 179 folks, the deadliest air catastrophe on the nation’s soil, the transport ministry mentioned on Saturday.
One space underneath investigation is what function a hen strike performed within the Dec. 29 crash of flight 7C2216 because it arrived at Muan Worldwide Airport from Bangkok, in accordance with a ministry assertion.
The report might be despatched to the Worldwide Civil Aviation Group in addition to america, France and Thailand, the ministry mentioned. Seoul has been cooperating with investigators from the U.S. Nationwide Transportation Security Board and France’s Bureau of Enquiry and Evaluation for Civil Aviation Security.
It’ll take a number of months to analyse and confirm flight information and cockpit voice recordings, which stopped recording 4 minutes and 7 seconds earlier than the crash, and communication recordings with the management tower, the ministry mentioned.
At 08:58:11 a.m., the pilots mentioned birds flying underneath the Boeing (NYSE:) 737-800, then declared mayday at 08:58:56, reporting a hen strike whereas the aircraft was on a go-around, the assertion mentioned. Airport CCTV footage additionally confirmed the aircraft making “contact” with birds through the go-around, it mentioned.
Beforehand the ministry had mentioned the pilots issued the misery sign on account of hen strikes earlier than going round.
The jet crashed at 9:02:57 a.m., slamming into an embankment and bursting into flames that killed everybody aboard besides for 2 crew members within the tail part.
The surveillance footage was taken from too far-off to see if there was a spark from the hen strike however it “confirmed the aircraft making contact with birds, although the precise time is unclear,” a ministry official informed Reuters.
Duck feathers and blood have been present in each of the aircraft’s GE Aerospace engines, the ministry mentioned.
The ministry mentioned it will conduct a separate evaluation of the function of the concrete embankment that supported navigation antennas referred to as “localisers”. The ministry mentioned on Wednesday that it will take away the embankment, which specialists mentioned doubtless made the catastrophe extra lethal.
