Written by Jack Kim
SEL (Reuters) – The South Korean authorities, which were investigating the Jeju Air crash last month, submitted a preliminary report on the incident to the United Nations Air Agency and to the United States, France and Thailand authorities, an official said on Monday.
The report, issued on Monday, said that the investigation of the bloody air disaster on the country's lands is still ongoing, and focuses on the role of “bird strike” and includes the analysis of engines and the “local” landing structure.
She added that “these comprehensive investigation activities aim to determine the exact cause of the accident.”
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a United Nations agency, requires incident investigators to prepare an initial report within 30 days of the accident, and encourages the publication of the final report within 12 months.
The Boeing plane (NYSE 🙂 737-800, coming from Bangkok, which was scheduled to arrive at Moan International Airport, is running when it made an emergency landing in the abdomen of the plane and collided with the local structure, killing all 181 people and crew with the exception two. On the plane on December 29.
Experts said that the location device helps navigate a plane approaching the runway, and it is possible that the structure built of reinforced concrete and the land at the Mawan Airport, which supports the system's antennas is the cause of the disaster.
The report highlighted many of the preliminary results reached by the Southern Korean investigators that were shared with the families of the victims on Saturday, including pilots who discussed a swarm of birds that they monitored at its final approach.
The accident report stated that the exact time for a bird hit by the pilots is still inaccurate, but the plane “issued an emergency advertisement (Maiday 3) for a bird's blow.”
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She added that “both engines were examined, and feathers and bird blood stains were found on each of them.”
He added, “After colliding with the dam, a fire and a partial explosion occurred. The two engines were buried in the dam's soil pile, and the front fuselage was scattered at a distance between 30 and 200 meters from the dam.”
The report did not mention what led to the data of the data from the registration simultaneously before the pilots announced the day of distress. She added that the plane was at an altitude of 498 feet (152 meters) and flying at a speed of 161 knots (298 km/hour or 185 miles per hour) at the moment when the two black boxes stopped registration.
