South Korea studies preliminary findings of Jeju Air crash to ICAO, U.S. and Thailand By Reuters
By Jack Kim
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s authorities investigating final month’s Jeju Air airplane crash have submitted a preliminary accident report back to the U.N. aviation company and to the authorities of america, France and Thailand, an official stated on Monday.
The investigation into the deadliest air catastrophe on the nation’s soil stays ongoing, the report made obtainable on Monday stated, centered on the function of “hen strike” and involving an evaluation of the engines and the “localiser” touchdown steering construction.
“These all-out investigation actions purpose to find out the correct explanation for the accident,” it stated.
The Worldwide Civil Aviation Group (ICAO), the U.N. company, requires accident investigators to supply a preliminary report inside 30 days of the accident and encourages a ultimate report back to be made public inside 12 months.
The Boeing (NYSE:) 737-800 jet, from Bangkok and scheduled to reach at Muan Worldwide Airport, overshot the runway because it made an emergency stomach touchdown and crashed into the localiser construction, killing all however two of the 181 folks and crew members on board on Dec. 29.
The localiser aids navigation of an plane making an method to the runway, and the construction constructed of bolstered concrete and earth at Muan airport supporting the system’s antennae was probably a explanation for the catastrophe, consultants have stated.
The report highlighted a lot of the preliminary findings by the South Korean investigators that was shared with the households of the victims on Saturday, together with the pilots discussing a flock of birds they noticed on its ultimate method.
The precise time of a hen strike reported by the pilots stays unconfirmed, the accident report stated, however the plane “made an emergency declaration (Mayday x 3) for a hen strike
throughout a go-around.”
“Each engines have been examined, and feathers and hen blood stains have been discovered on every,” it stated.
“After the crash into the embankment, fireplace and a partial explosion occurred. Each engines have been buried within the embankment’s soil mound, and the fore fuselage scattered as much as 30-200 meters from the embankment,” it stated.
The report doesn’t say what could have led to the 2 information recorders to cease recording concurrently simply earlier than the pilots declared mayday. The plane was at an altitude of 498 ft (152 metres) flying at 161 knots (298 km/h or 185 mph) in the mean time the blackboxes stopped recording, it stated.
