Bird feathers were found inside one of the engines recovered from the one that crashed in South Korea at the end of December.
According to the AFP news agency, Lee Seung-yeol, the main investigator of the case, confirmed the discovery this Tuesday (07), considering, on the other hand, that just a collision with birds would not lead to an immediate engine failure and reinforcing the need to understand whether the incident affected both aircraft engines.
The accident involving Jeju Air flight 7C2216, boarded on a Boeing 737-800, which was coming from Bangkok, Thailand, bound for Muan, South Korea, killed 179 of the 181 crew members who occupied the aircraft on December 29th. . When making a forced landing without activating the landing gear, the plane ended up colliding with a wall and.
The accident led to a union between the People Power Party and the Democratic Party, rival South Korean parties, to establish a special investigation committee.
According to Reuters, questions from air safety experts working on the case investigation focused on the wall, designed to support the “locator” antenna used to guide landings. For professionals, the wall is “very rigid” and “very close to the end of the track”.
The cause of it is still unknown.
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South Korean Transport Minister resigns
Also on Tuesday, Park Sang-woo, South Korea’s transport minister, declared his intention to resign from his position to take responsibility for the accident.
The ministry promised to “rapidly” improve the security of the airport’s systems and runways.
