SEOUL (Reuters) -The flight information and cockpit voice recorders on the Jeju Air jet that crashed on Dec. 29 stopped recording about 4 minutes earlier than the airliner hit a concrete construction at South Korea’s Muan airport, the transport ministry mentioned on Saturday.
Authorities investigating the catastrophe that killed 179 individuals, the worst on South Korean soil, plan to analyse what brought about the “black boxes” to cease recording, the ministry mentioned in an announcement.
The voice recorder was initially analysed in South Korea, and, when information was discovered to be lacking, then despatched to a U.S. Nationwide Transportation Security Board laboratory, the ministry mentioned.
The broken flight information recorder was taken to america for evaluation in cooperation with the U.S. security regulator, the ministry has mentioned.
Jeju Air 7C2216, which departed the Thai capital Bangkok for Muan in southwestern South Korea, belly-landed and overshot the regional airport’s runway, exploding into flames after hitting an embankment.
The pilots instructed air visitors management the plane had suffered a fowl strike and declared emergency about 4 minutes earlier than it crashed into the embankment exploding in flames. Two injured crew members, sitting within the tail part, have been rescued.
