South Koreas authorities examining last months Jeju Air plane crash have actually sent a preliminary accident report to the UN aviation firm and to the authorities of the United States, France and Thailand, an authorities stated on Monday.The examination into the deadliest air disaster on the countrys soil stays continuous, the report provided on Monday stated, focused on the role of bird strike and including an analysis of the engines and the localizer landing guidance structure.These full-scale investigation activities intend to determine the precise cause of the accident, it said.The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the UN company, needs accident private investigators to produce a preliminary report within 30 days of the accident and encourages a last report to be revealed within 12 months.The Boeing 737-800 jet, from Bangkok and scheduled to get to Muan International Airport, overshot the runway as it made an emergency situation belly landing and crashed into the localizer structure, killing all however two of the 181 people and team members on board on December 29.
The localizer help navigation of an aircraft making an approach to the runway, and the structure constructed of reinforced concrete and earth at Muan airport supporting the systems antennae was likely a cause of the catastrophe, specialists have said.The report highlighted much of the preliminary findings by the South Korean private investigators that was shown the families of the victims on Saturday, including the pilots talking about a flock of birds they spotted on its last approach.The specific time of a bird strike reported by the pilots remains unconfirmed, the accident report said, but the airplane made an emergency declaration for a bird strike during a go-around.
Both engines were analyzed, and feathers and bird blood stains were found on each, it said.After the crash into the embankment, fire and a partial explosion occurred.
Both engines were buried in the embankments soil mound, and the fore fuselage spread up to 30-200 meters from the embankment, it said.The report does not say what may have caused the two data recorders to stop recording at the same time prior to the pilots stated mayday.
The airplane was at an altitude of 498 feet (152 metres) flying at 161 knots (298 km/h or 185 mph) at the moment the blackboxes stopped recording, it said.Source: CNN-- Agencies