SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – The black box on a Boeing jetliner that crashed in South Korea last month stopped recording about four minutes before the crash, potentially complicating the investigation into the cause of the crash. South Korean authorities announced on Saturday. Killed 179 people.
South Korea’s Ministry of Transportation said the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board analyzed the equipment and concluded that both the flight data and the cockpit voice recorder stopped working about four minutes before the crash.
of boeing 737-800 On December 29, a passenger plane operated by Jeju Air skidded off the runway in Muan, South Korea after its landing gear failed to deploy, crashing into a concrete structure and bursting into flames, leaving all but two of the 181 passengers and crew on board. All died.
After the first analysis, black box, After some data was found to be missing, South Korean authorities sent the device to the NTSB for further examination. The Department of Transportation said it was not immediately clear why the equipment was unable to record data over the past four minutes.
“Data from CVR (cockpit voice recorder) and FDR (flight data recorder) is important for accident investigation, but accident investigation is conducted by investigating and analyzing various information sources, and we are making every effort to investigate the cause. “This is the result of the accident,” the ministry said in a statement.
South Korean investigators said air traffic controllers alerted the pilots to the possibility of a bird strike two minutes before the plane sent out a distress call confirming that a bird strike had occurred, and the pilots then attempted an emergency landing.
South Korean authorities also pledged to improve airport safety after experts linked the high death toll to Muan Airport’s localizer system, the structure the plane hit during the crash. The localizer was a set of antennas designed to guide the aircraft during landing and was housed in an earth-covered concrete structure on elevated ground. This has led to questions about whether the structure should have been constructed from lighter materials that are more likely to break on impact.
