The two black boxes of the Jeju Air Boeing that crashed on December 29 in Muan, South Korea, stopped recording four minutes before the accident that killed 179 of the 181 passengers, the Ministry of Transportation announced this Saturday, January 11. South Korean.
“The analysis revealed that the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) and the flight data recorder (FDR) did not record during the four minutes prior to the collision of the aircraft” with the wall located at the end of the runway and caused it to the device would catch fire, he added. the ministry said in a press release.
This Boeing 737-800 of the South Korean low-cost company Jeju Air, from Bangkok, landed upside down at Muan airport (southwest), a few seconds before crashing into a locator, a navigation aid tool installed here on a reinforced mound. with concrete.
179 passengers killed, two survivors
A total of 179 passengers died, and only one flight attendant and one steward survived this disaster, the worst to occur in South Korea.
The authorities planned to “investigate the cause of the data loss,” the press release states, while after the tragedy joint investigations were launched between South Korean and American experts, including those from Boeing.
The ways mentioned so far to explain the fatal accident of Jeju Air Flight 2216 are a collision with birds, a malfunction of the landing gear and the presence of this obstacle hit by the plane.
The pilot had sent a warning message about a bird strike before canceling his first landing attempt. On their second attempt, the team was not out.
Source: BFM TV
