South Korea reports initial findings of Jeju Air crash to ICAO, U.S. and Thailand

Seoul, South Korea — 

South Korea's authorities investigating past month's Jeju Air level clang person submitted a preliminary mishap study to the U.N. aviation bureau and to the authorities of the United States, France and Thailand, an authoritative said connected Monday.

The probe into the deadliest aerial catastrophe connected the country's ungraded remains ongoing, the study made disposable connected Monday said, focused connected the relation of "bird strike" and involving an investigation of the engines and the "localiser" landing guidance structure.

"These all-out probe activities purpose to find the close origin of the accident," it said.

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the U.N. agency, requires mishap investigators to nutrient a preliminary study wrong 30 days of the mishap and encourages a last study to beryllium made nationalist wrong 12 months.

The Boeing BA.N 737-800 jet, from Bangkok and scheduled to get astatine Muan International Airport, overshot the runway arsenic it made an exigency belly landing and crashed into the localiser structure, sidesplitting each but 2 of the 181 radical and unit members connected committee connected Dec. 29.

The localiser immunodeficiency navigation of an craft making an attack to the runway, and the operation built of reinforced factual and world astatine Muan airdrome supporting the system's antennae was apt a origin of the disaster, experts person said.

The study highlighted overmuch of the archetypal findings by the South Korean investigators that was shared with the families of the victims connected Saturday, including the pilots discussing a flock of birds they spotted connected its last approach.

The nonstop clip of a vertebrate onslaught reported by the pilots remains unconfirmed, the mishap study said, but the craft "made an exigency declaration (Mayday x 3) for a vertebrate strike

during a go-around."

"Both engines were examined, and feathers and vertebrate humor stains were recovered connected each," it said.

"After the clang into the embankment, occurrence and a partial detonation occurred. Both engines were buried successful the embankment's ungraded mound, and the fore fuselage scattered up to 30-200 meters from the embankment," it said.

The study does not accidental what whitethorn person led to the 2 information recorders to halt signaling simultaneously conscionable earlier the pilots declared mayday. The craft was astatine an altitude of 152 meters flying astatine 298 kmh astatine the infinitesimal the blackboxes stopped recording, it said.