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January 28, 2025 | 07:12 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Both engines of the Jeju Air plane that crashed last month contained duck remains, according to a preliminary report on Monday, January 27, 2025, with authorities still trying to determine what caused the deadliest air disaster on South Korean soil.
Although it is rare for such preliminary reports to go beyond factual details, the report gave no indication about what might have led the aircraft to land far down the runway without its landing gear deployed, highlighting the lack of immediate clues after the plane's black boxes stopped recording four minutes before impact.
The six-page report released by South Korean authorities a month after the crash said both engines of the Boeing 737-800 jet contained DNA from Baikal Teals, a type of migratory duck that flies to South Korea for winter in huge flocks.
Experts say air accidents are nearly always caused by a cocktail of factors.
The Jeju Air flight from Bangkok on Dec. 29 overshot Muan Airport's runway as it made an emergency belly landing and crashed into an embankment containing navigation equipment, called localizers, killing all but two of the 181 people and crew members on board.
"After the crash into the embankment, fire and a partial explosion occurred. Both engines were buried in the embankment's soil mound, and the fore fuselage scattered up to 30-200 meters from the embankment," the report said, providing some new pictures of the accident site.
The localizer aids the navigation of an aircraft making an approach to the runway, and the structure built of reinforced concrete and earth at Muan airport supporting the system's antennae likely contributed to the high death toll, experts have said.
The investigation will dismantle the engines, examine components in depth, analyze in-flight and air traffic control data, and investigate the embankment, localizers, and evidence of bird strikes, the report said about its next steps.
"These all-out investigation activities aim to determine the accurate cause of the accident," it said.
The report highlighted much of the initial findings by the South Korean investigators that were shared with victims' families on Saturday, including the pilots' awareness of a flock of birds on the plane's final approach.
The exact time the bird strike was reported by the pilots remains unconfirmed, the accident report said, but the aircraft "made an emergency declaration (Mayday x 3) for a bird strike during a go-around."
The Jeju Air 7C2216 crash, South Korea’s deadliest, is still under investigation. In addition to reports of bird strikes, experts say a large embankment supporting a navigation antenna at the end of the runway likely made the disaster more deadly than it needed to be.
REUTERS | Jack Kim and Lisa Barrington
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