Bird strike traces found in engines of Jeju Air plane that crashed killing 179 Traces of bird strikes were found in the engines of the Jeju Air plane which crashed in South Korea last month, killing all but two of its 181 passengers, according to a preliminary report.
Feathers and bird blood stains were found in both engines of the aircraft which crashed at Muan International Airport on 29 December, the report released by South Korea's Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Board said.
Only two crew members seated near the rear of the plane survived South Korea's worst domestic civil aviation disaster at Muan, about 180 miles south of Seoul.
The Boeing 737-800's two black boxes - the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder - stopped recording about four minutes before the crash, the report added, potentially complicating efforts to discover the cause of the accident.
South Korea to remove concrete antenna barriers at airports after crash that killed 179.
