The two black boxes of the Jesus Air Boeing which crashed on December 29 in Muan, South Korea, stopped recording four minutes before the accident which killed 179 of the 181 passengers, the Ministry of Defense announced on Saturday. South Korean transport.
“The analysis revealed that the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) and flight data recorder (FDR) were not recording during the four minutes preceding the aircraft’s collision” with the wall which was located in end of the runway and caused the device to catch fire, the ministry said in a press release.
179 dead for only two survivors
This Boeing 737-800 from the South Korean low-cost airline Jeju Air, coming from Bangkok, landed on its belly at Muan airport (southwest), a few seconds before crashing into a locator, a navigation aid tool installed here on a mound reinforced with concrete.
A total of 179 passengers died, with only a hostess and a steward surviving this disaster, the worst in South Korea. The authorities planned to “investigate the cause of the data loss”, specifies the press release, while joint investigations between South Korean and American experts, including from Boeing, were launched after the tragedy.
The avenues mentioned so far to explain the deadly accident of Jeju Air flight 2216 are a collision with birds, a malfunction of the landing gear and the presence of this obstacle hit by the plane. The pilot had sent a warning message regarding a collision with birds before canceling his first landing attempt. On his second try, the gear was not out.
