South Korea Says Jeju Air Jet Black Boxes Stopped Recording Before Crash

Four minutes before the disaster, the black boxes for the crashed Jeju Air flight’s cockpit voice recorders, which had left 179 people dead, stopped recording, according to South Korea’s transportation ministry, on Saturday.

When it belly-landed at the Muan airport on December 29 and slammed into a concrete barrier, the Boeing 737-800, which was carrying 181 passengers and crew, descended in a fireball.

The worst aviation disaster to ever occur on South Korean soil.

The transport ministry said in a statement that both the CVR and FDR data were not recorded during the four minutes leading up to the aircraft’s collision with the localiser.

The runway’s end-to-air barrier, which aids in aircraft landings, is credited with escalating the severity of the crash.

The damaged flight data recorder was sent to the US for analysis at the US National Transportation Safety Board laboratory after South Korean authorities determined it was ineligible for data extraction.

Authorities are now looking into what happened, but it appears that the boxes that contained the information from the flight’s final moments lost data.

According to the ministry, “Plans are in place to look into the cause of the data loss during the ongoing accident investigation.”

The cause of the crash is still being investigated by South Korean and US investigators, which sparked a national outpouring of grief with memorials set up all over the nation.

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The boxes were important to the investigation, according to the investigators, but they added they would continue to investigate the cause of the collision.

“The investigation will be conducted through the examination and analysis of various data. The Ministry stated that the committee will try its best to ascertain the cause of the accident.

A bird strike, faulty landing gear, and the runway barrier have been identified as potential issues by investigators.

Before making a second landing attempt when the landing gear failed, the pilot was alerted to a bird strike.

This week, lead investigator Lee Seung-yeol told reporters that “feathers were found” in one of the plane’s recovered engines, but cautioned a bird strike does not lead to an immediate engine failure.

Authorities have searched Jeju Air’s headquarters in Seoul, the southwest of Muan Airport, and a regional aviation office in the city where the accident occurred.

Additionally, they forbade the country’s chief executive of Jeju Air from leaving.

Transport Minister Park Sang-woo resigned this week, while rival parties later established a joint task force to look into the collision.

“As the minister responsible for aviation safety, I feel a heavy sense of responsibility regarding this tragedy”, he said.

Source: Channels TV