January 28, 2025
Recovery teams work at the scene where a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 series aircraft crashed and burst into flames at Muan International Airport in Muan, some 288 kilometres southwest of Seoul on December 30, 2024. PHOTO: AFP
Duck DNA in both engines of Jeju Air plane that crashed, report says
The six-page report, released by the South Korean authorities a month after the crash, said both engines of the Boeing 737-800 jet contained DNA from the Baikal teal, a type of migratory duck that flies to South Korea for winter in huge flocks.
