South Korea to launch preliminary report of Jeju Air crash by Monday By Reuters

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea will launch by Monday a preliminary report on ultimate month’s Jeju Air plane crash that killed 179 people, the deadliest air disaster on the nation’s soil, the transport ministry talked about on Saturday.

One area beneath investigation is what perform a hen strike carried out inside the Dec. 29 crash of flight 7C2216 as a result of it arrived at Muan Worldwide Airport from Bangkok, in accordance with a ministry assertion.

The report could be despatched to the Worldwide Civil Aviation Group along with america, France and Thailand, the ministry talked about. Seoul has been cooperating with investigators from the U.S. Nationwide Transportation Safety Board and France’s Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety.

It’ll take quite a few months to analyse and make sure flight info and cockpit voice recordings, which stopped recording 4 minutes and seven seconds sooner than the crash, and communication recordings with the administration tower, the ministry talked about.

At 08:58:11 a.m., the pilots talked about birds flying beneath the Boeing (NYSE:) 737-800, then declared mayday at 08:58:56, reporting a hen strike whereas the plane was on a go-around, the assertion talked about. Airport CCTV footage moreover confirmed the plane making “contact” with birds by way of the go-around, it talked about.

Beforehand the ministry had talked about the pilots issued the distress signal on account of hen strikes sooner than going spherical.

The jet crashed at 9:02:57 a.m., slamming into an embankment and bursting into flames that killed all people aboard moreover for two crew members inside the tail half.

The surveillance footage was taken from too far-off to see if there was a spark from the hen strike nevertheless it “confirmed the plane making contact with birds, though the exact time is unclear,” a ministry official knowledgeable Reuters.

Duck feathers and blood have been current in every of the plane’s GE Aerospace engines, the ministry talked about.

The ministry talked about it is going to conduct a separate analysis of the perform of the concrete embankment that supported navigation antennas known as “localisers”. The ministry talked about on Wednesday that it’s going to take away the embankment, which specialists talked about probably made the disaster further deadly.