{"id":69148,"date":"2025-01-27T22:23:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T13:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/27\/bird-remains-engines-jeju-air-crash-report-south-korea"},"modified":"2025-01-27T22:23:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T13:23:27","slug":"bird-remains-found-in-both-engines-of-crashed-jeju-air-jet-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69148","title":{"rendered":"Bird remains found in both engines of crashed Jeju Air jet, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plane appears to have hit ducks before it crashed in Muan, South Korea, last month killing 179 people onboard<\/p>\n<p>An investigation into the deadliest air disaster on South Korean soil has found duck remains in both engines, according to a preliminary report, suggesting the passenger jet hit birds before slamming down on the runway.<\/p>\n<p>While officials have not yet determined the cause of last month\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/31\/south-korea-plane-crash-cause-investigation-muan-airport-embankment\">Jeju Air crash<\/a> that killed all but two of the 181 people onboard, the report released on Monday said feathers and bird bloodstains were found inside the Boeing 737-800\u2019s engines.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/27\/bird-remains-engines-jeju-air-crash-report-south-korea\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plane appears to have hit ducks before it crashed in Muan, South Korea, last month killing 179 people onboardAn investigation into the deadliest air disaster on South Korean soil has found duck remains in both engines, according to a preliminary report&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1486,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376,41,931,222,3215,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-transport","category-asia-pacific","category-plane-crashes","category-south-korea","category-south-korea-plane-crash","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1486"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69149,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69148\/revisions\/69149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}