SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea will announce by Monday a preliminary report on an aircraft accident in last month’s one -month aircraft, which killed 179 people, the most deadly air disaster on state soil, the Ministry of Transport said on Saturday.
One area explored is what the role of bird strike played in a collision on December 29, Flight 7c22216 because it arrived at Muan International Airport from Bangkok, the Ministry states.
The report will be sent to the international organization of civil aviation, as well as the United States, France and Thailand, the Ministry said. Seoul collaborated with investigators of the US National Transport Safety Committee and the French Office for Civil Aviation Air Force Research and Analysis.
It will take several months to analyze the data on flight and voice recording of the cockpit, which stopped shooting four minutes and seven seconds before the collision, and communication shots with the control tower, the Ministry said.
At 08:58:11, pilots talked about birds flying under Boeing (Nyse 🙂 737-800 and then declared Mayday at 08:58:56, reporting a bird strike while the plane was on the way, statement, statement said. CCTV airport shots also showed that the plane was established “contact” with birds during the goal-arunda, it was stated.
Previously, the Ministry said that the pilots had issued a signal of distress due to bird impact before they started.
The story crashed at 9:02:57, he scored into the embankment and broke into the flames that killed everything on board, except two crew members in the tail.
The surveillance recordings were shot too far to see if there was a spark from a bird strike, but “it confirmed that the plane was contacted with birds, although the exact time was unclear,” said Reuters Ministry.
Duck feathers and blood were found on both aircraft on the plane, the Ministry said.
The Ministry said he would carry out a separate analysis of the role of a concrete embankment that supported navigation antennas called “localizers”. On Wednesday, the Ministry announced that it would remove the embankment, which experts said the disaster made it deadly.
