By Hyunjoo Jin
Seoul (Reuters) -Investigators discovered hen feathers and blood in each engines of the Jeju Air jet that crashed in South Korea final month, killing 179 folks, an individual conversant in the probe instructed Reuters on Friday.
The Boeing (NYSE:) 737-800 airplane, which departed from the Thai capital Bangkok for Muan county in southwestern South Korea, belly-landed and overshot the regional airport’s runway, bursting into flames after hitting an embankment.
Solely two crew members on the tail finish of the airplane survived the worst aviation catastrophe on South Korean soil.
About 4 minutes earlier than the deadly crash, one of many pilots reported a hen strike and declared an emergency earlier than initiating a go-around and trying to land on the other finish of the runway, in line with South Korean authorities.
Two minutes earlier than the pilot declared the Mayday emergency name, air site visitors management had urged warning as a result of “hen exercise” within the space.
Investigators this month stated feathers have been discovered on one of many engines recovered from the crash scene, including that video footage confirmed there was a hen strike on an engine.
South Korea’s transport ministry declined to touch upon whether or not feathers and blood have been present in each engines.
The airplane’s two black bins – key to discovering out the reason for final month’s crash on the jet – stopped recording about 4 minutes earlier than the accident, posing a problem to the continuing investigation.
Sim Jai-dong, a former transport ministry accident investigator, stated on Sunday the lacking information was stunning and prompt all energy, together with backup, could have been minimize, which is uncommon.
Chicken strikes that impression each engines are additionally uncommon occurrences in aviation globally, although there have been profitable instances of pilots touchdown the airplane with out fatalities in such conditions together with the “Miracle on the Hudson (NYSE:)” river touchdown within the U.S. in 2009 and a cornfield touchdown in Russia in 2019.
