Jet engines are incredibly powerful, complex pieces of precision engineering, running at the finest of tolerances; bird strikes can push these tolerances to the limits. When a bird is ingested into an engine, the first thing the unfortunate creature will meet is the fan blades, typically rotating between 2200 rpm and 4500 rpm.

Investigators say they have found evidence of a bird strike on a passenger plane that crashed in South Korea in December and killed 179 people. The feathers and blood stains on both engines of the Jeju Air plane were from the Baikal teal,

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

Bird feathers and bloodstains were found in both engines of the Jeju Air plane that crashed in December, according to a preliminary investigation

The authorities are focusing on a possible bird strike coupled with the functioning of the localizer landing guidance structure.

The black box of an airplane that crashed in South Korea's southwestern airport late last month stopped recording just a minute after the warning of bird strike, the transport ministry said Saturday.

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

The first report on last month’s Jeju Air crash in South Korea confirmed traces of 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.