Jeju Air crash investigation finds new evidence suggesting bird strikes caused disaster Crash at Muan airport on 29 December killed 179 people.
A preliminary investigation report released on Monday revealed that feathers and blood stains from birds were found in both engines of the Boeing 737-800 which crashed on 29 December, killing 179 of the 181 passengers and crew members onboard.
The flight from Bangkok overshot the Muan international airport’s runway as it made an emergency belly landing and crashed into an embankment containing navigation equipment, called a localiser system.
South Korea confirmed that bird strikes played a role in last month’s fatal crash of a Jeju Air plane, although the precise cause remained under investigation.
It didn’t offer any conclusions about what might have caused the plane to land without its landing gear deployed or why the flight data recorders stopped working in the final four minutes.
