The black boxes of a Boeing jetliner that crashed in South Korea last month stopped recording about four minutes before the accident, potentially hindering investigations into the cause. The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board concluded that both flight data and cockpit voice recorders stopped working before the crash, which killed 179 people. The Boeing 737-800, operated by Jeju Air, skidded off a runway after its landing gear failed to deploy.
Rescue team members work at the site of a plane crash at Muan International Airport in Muan, South Korea on Dec. 31, 2024.
After analyzing the devices, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board concluded that both the flight data and cockpit voice recorders stopped working about four minutes before the crash, the South Korean Transportation Ministry said. After initially analyzing the black boxes, South Korean officials sent the devices to the NTSB for closer examination after discovering that some of the data was missing. The transportation ministry said it wasn’t immediately clear why the devices failed to record data in the last four minutes.
South Korean investigators have said that air traffic controllers warned the pilot about possible bird strikes two minutes before the aircraft issued a distress signal confirming that a bird strike had occurred, after which the pilot attempted an emergency landing.
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