The preliminary report was released by the Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Board on Monday in South Korea.
An Airbus plane belonging to South Korean carrier Air Busan caught fire on Tuesday at Gimhae International Airport in the country’s south while preparing for departure to Hong Kong, fire authorities said.
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Following the deadly Jeju Air accident, the government ordered low cost carriers to reduce flight times, boost pilot training and expand maintenance crews.
STORY: South Korea has released the initial findings of a probe into the crash of a Jeju Air flight last month. But mysteries remain. All 175 passengers and four of six crew were killed in the incident,
A preliminary report has found traces of a bird strike in the engines of the Boeing 737-800 that crashed on 29 December after failing to deploy its landing gear and slamming into a concrete barrier - killing all but two people on board.
Both engines of the Jeju Air plane that crashed last month contained duck remains, according to a preliminary report on Monday, with authorities still trying
South Korea's authorities investigating last month's Jeju Air plane crash have submitted a preliminary accident report to the U.N. aviation agency and to the authorities of the United States, France and Thailand,
Pilots’ actions after that strike are an early focus of the investigation, according to people familiar with the probe.
South Korea released on Monday a preliminary report on its investigation into a Jeju Air crash on Dec. 29 at Muan International Airport that killed 179 people in the deadliest air disaster on the country's soil.
South Korean officials are launching an investigation into the cause of the fire that engulfed an Air Busan passenger plane, with eyewitness accounts suggesting a power bank may have sparked the blaze.