Seoul (Reuters) – South Korea will be launched on Monday a preliminary report on Jeju Air's air accident last month that killed 179 people, the most deadly aerial disaster in the nation's soil, the Ministry of Transportation said on Saturday .
An area under investigation is what role a bird strike played in the accident of December 29 of flight 7c2216, since it arrived at Muan International Airport from Bangkok, according to a statement from the Ministry.
The report will be sent to the International Civil Aviation Organization, as well as to the United States, France and Thailand, the Ministry said. Seoul has been cooperating with researchers from the National Board of Transportation Security of the United States and the France Research and Analysis Office for the Safety of Civil Aviation.
It will take several months to analyze and verify the flight data and the voice recordings of the cabin, which stopped recording four minutes and seven seconds before the accident, and the communication recordings with the control tower, the ministry said.
At 08:58:11 in the morning, the pilots discussed the birds flying under the Boeing (NYSE 🙂 737-800, then Mayday declared at 08:58:56, reporting a bird strike while the plane was in A statement, the declaration, the statement said. The airport's CCTV images also showed the plane making “contact” with birds during the return, he said.
Previously, the ministry had said that the pilots issued the relief signal due to bird strikes before turning around.
The plane crashed at 9:02:57 am, hitting a embankment and exploded in flames that killed everyone on board, except for two crew members in the tail section.
The surveillance images were taken from too far to see if there was a spark of the bird strike, but “confirmed that the plane made contact with the birds, although the exact time is not clear,” said a ministry official to Reuters.
Duck and blood feathers were found in the two geospacial engines of the plane, the ministry said.
The Ministry said it would perform a separate analysis of the role of the specific embankment that supported the navigation antennas called “locators.” The ministry said Wednesday that it would eliminate the embankment, that experts said it probably made the disaster more mortal.
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