SEOUL: The black containers holding the flight information and cockpit voice recorders for the crashed Jeju Air flight that left 179 individuals useless stopped recording 4 minutes earlier than the catastrophe, South Korea’s transport ministry stated on Saturday (Jan 11).
The Boeing 737-800 was flying from Thailand to Muan, South Korea, on Dec 29 carrying 181 passengers and crew when it belly-landed on the Muan airport and exploded in a fireball after slamming right into a concrete barrier.
It was the worst-ever aviation catastrophe on South Korean soil.
“The evaluation revealed that each the CVR and FDR information weren’t recorded throughout the 4 minutes main as much as the plane’s collision with the localiser,” the transport ministry stated in a press release, referring to the 2 recording gadgets.
The localiser is a barrier on the finish of the runway that helps with plane landings and was blamed for exacerbating the crash’s severity.
The broken flight information recorder had been deemed unrecoverable for information extraction by South Korean authorities, who despatched it to the US for evaluation on the US Nationwide Transportation Security Board laboratory.
However it seems that the containers holding clues to the flight’s remaining moments skilled information loss, leaving authorities looking for out what occurred.
“Plans are in place to analyze the reason for the info loss throughout the ongoing accident investigation,” the ministry stated.
South Korean and US investigators are nonetheless probing the reason for the crash, which prompted a nationwide outpouring of mourning with memorials arrange throughout the nation.
