Jeju Air: The black boxes of the South Korean plane stopped recording 4 minutes before the accident

The black boxes on the crashed Jeju Air plane stopped recording flight data four minutes before the aircraft hit a wall and exploded. after attempting an emergency landing in the worst accident in the history of Korean aviation, the South Korean Ministry of Transportation reported this Saturday.

This finding hinders the investigation of the causes of the aviation accident that occurred on December 29 at the Muan airport (southwest of South Korea), which left 179 dead.

The analysis of the recordings of the pilots’ voices in the aircraft cockpit and the flight data carried out by the United States National Transportation Safety Board The NTSB shows that those records stopped at 8:59 local time.

The Boeing 737-800 explosion took place at 9:03, just after the plane crashed into a concrete wall off the runway after touching down without activating the landing gear or other braking devices.

Minutes before touching down, the pilot of flight 7C2216 had broadcast a distress alert and notified the air traffic control tower that the aircraft had been affected by a bird strike.

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The South Korean Ministry of Transportation noted that although the data from the black boxes is fundamental to the investigation of the accident, These are not your only sources for information about it.

South Korean authorities will continue analyzing air traffic records, video recordings of the accident and the remains found at the scene of the accident.

The South Korean ministry had sent the contents of the black boxes to the NTSB last week for double verification.

The accident, in which only two members of the plane’s crew survived, has led the low-cost airline Jeju Air to cut its flights from Busan (southeast of the country). during the first quarter to strengthen its aircraft maintenance operations, in full scrutiny of the causes of the accident.

With information from EFE.

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