South Korean officials are launching an investigation into the cause of the fire that engulfed an Air Busan passenger plane, with eyewitness accounts suggesting a power bank may have sparked the blaze.

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,

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,