SEEOUL: Four minutes before the disaster, the black boxes holding the flight data and cockpit voice recorders for the crashed Jeju Air flight that left 179 people dead stopped recording, according to South Korea’s transportation ministry on Saturday ( Jan 11 ).
When it belly-landed at the Muan airports on December 29 and slammed into a material challenge, the Boeing 737-800, which was carrying 181 passengers and crew, descended in a fire.
The worst aircraft disaster to ever occur on North Korean ground.
The transport department said in a statement that the study revealed that both the CVR and FDR files were not recorded during the four days leading up to the plane’s motion with the localiser.
The localiser, which is a challenge at the end of the runway that aids in aircraft landings, is credited with escalating the severity of the crash.
The broken trip data microphone was sent to the US for analysis at the US National Transportation Safety Board labs 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 last moments lost data.
According to the ministry,” Plans are in place to look into the cause of the data loss during the ongoing incident analysis.”
The cause of the accident is still being looked into by South Korean and US prosecutors, which sparked a national outpouring of grief with memorials set up all over the nation.