Authorities have suggested that migratory bird strikes were the cause of last month's deadly plane crash in South Korea, according to multiple reports.

The first report on last month’s Jeju Air crash in South Korea has confirmed bird strikes in the plane’s engines, though officials haven’t determined the cause of the accident that killed all but two of the 181 people on board.

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,

The exact cause of the Jeju Air crash remains unclear, and the investigation is complicated because the black boxes stopped recording four minutes before impact.

Investigators have released a report that casts further light on the Jeju Air disaster that claimed the lives of 181 people on board, with only two people surviving the crash last month

An Airbus passenger plane traveling from Busan, South Korea, to Hong Kong caught fire before takeoff, forcing 176 people to evacuate using its inflatable slides, officials said on Tuesday evening.

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South Korean authorities concluded search and recovery operations and an investigation into the Dec. 29 crash of a Jeju Air plane that killed 179 people and found feathers and bloodstains in the two engines of the plane.

Bird feathers were found in the engines of crashed Jeju Air jet. Investigators claim they have found evidence of a bir