A preliminary report on the Jeju Air plane that crashed in South Korea in December killing 179 on board reveals evidence of a bird strike. The report says that both engines of the plane contained duck remains but it provided no conclusions about what caused the plane to land without its landing gear deployed or why flight data stopped recording in the final four minutes of the flight.

South Korea’s authorities investigating last month’s Jeju Air plane crash have submitted a preliminary accident report to the UN aviation agency and to the authorities of the United States, France and Thailand,

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.