{"id":108731,"date":"2025-01-27T08:03:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T08:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/27\/bird-feathers-found-in-engines-of-crashed-jeju-air-jet\/"},"modified":"2025-01-27T08:03:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T08:03:01","slug":"bird-feathers-found-in-engines-of-crashed-jeju-air-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/bird-feathers-found-in-engines-of-crashed-jeju-air-jet\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird feathers found in engines of crashed Jeju Air jet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Investigators say they have found evidence of a bird strike on a passenger plane that crashed in South Korea in December and killed 179 people.<\/p>\n

The feathers and blood stains on both engines of the Jeju Air plane were from the Baikal teal, a type of migratory duck that files in large flocks, according to a preliminary investigation report published on Monday.<\/p>\n

The inquiry into the crash \u2013 the deadliest on South Korean soil \u2013 will now focus on the role of the bird strike and a concrete structure at the end of the runway, which the plane crashed into.<\/p>\n

The engines of the Boeing 737-800 will be torn down and the concrete structure will be examined further, the report said.<\/p>\n

The Jeju Air plane took off from Bangkok in the morning of 29 December and was flying to Muan International Airport in the country\u2019s south-west.<\/p>\n

At about 08:57 local time, three minutes after pilots made contact with the airport, the control tower advised the crew to be cautious of \u201cbird activity\u201d.<\/p>\n

At 08:59, the pilot reported that the plane had struck a bird and declared a mayday signal.<\/p>\n

The pilot then requested permission to land from the opposite direction, during which it belly-landed without its landing gear deployed. It overran the runway and exploded after slamming into the concrete structure, the report said.<\/p>\n

Authorities earlier said that flight data and cockpit voice recorders from the plane\u00a0stopped recording<\/a>\u00a0about four minutes before the disaster.<\/p>\n

Experts who had flown the same type of aircraft involved in the crash have also questioned the presence of the concrete barriers along the runway \u2013 with some suggesting that the casualty toll would have been lower if they were not there.<\/p>\n

The concrete structure holds a navigation system that assists aircraft landings, known as a localiser.<\/p>\n

South Korea\u2019s transport ministry had said this system could also be found in other airports in the country and even overseas.<\/p>\n

Last week, authorities announced that they will\u00a0change the concrete barriers used for navigation\u00a0at seven airports across the country. Seven airports will also have their runway safety areas adapted following a review.<\/p>\n

The preliminary report has been submitted to the United Nations\u2019 aviation agency and to the authorities of the United States, France, and Thailand.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Investigators say they have found evidence of a bird strike on a passenger plane that crashed in South Korea in December and killed 179 people. The feathers and blood stains on both engines of the Jeju Air plane were from the Baikal teal, a type of migratory duck that files in large flocks, according to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}