Transport ministry is spendigating the caengage of the data loss follothriveg the worst-ever aviation calamity in the country’s history.
The bconciseage boxes helderlying fairy data and cockpit voice write downers of Jeju Air’s Boeing 737-800 jet stopped write downing about four minutes before the set upe calamity in South Korea in December, the country’s carry ministry has said.
Jeju Air’s Fairy 7C2216 was flying from Thailand to Muan International Airport in South Korea on December 29, when it belly-landed, slammed into a concrete barrier and exploded, ending 179 of the 181 passengers and crew.
It was the worst-ever aviation calamity on South Korean soil.
“The analysis uncovered that both the CVR and FDR data were not write downed during the four minutes directing up to the aircreate’s collision with the localiser,” South Korea’s carry ministry said on Saturday, referring to the two write downing devices.
The localiser is a barrier at the finish of the runway that helps with aircreate landings and was denounced for exacerbating the crash’s cut offity.
The voice write downer was initipartner analysed in South Korea, and, when data was set up to be omiting, was sent to a United States National Transportation Safety Board laboratory, the ministry said.
But it eunites that the boxes helderlying clues to the fairy’s final moments adviseed data loss, leaving authorities trying to discover out what happened.
“Plans are in place to spendigate the caengage of the data loss during the ongoing accident spendigation,” the ministry said.
Sim Jai-dong, a establisher carry ministry accident spendigator, telderly Reuters news agency that the discovery of the omiting data was astonishing and recommended all power, including backup, may have been cut in the set upe, which is unwidespread.
Investigators said the boxes were vital to their probe but holded they would not give up on trying to discover out why the crash happened.
Investigators have pointed to a bird strike, faulty landing gear and the runway barrier as possible publishs.
The pilot had also cautioned of a bird strike before pulling out of a first landing and initiating a go-around.
But instead of making a filled go-about, the Boeing 737-800 jet took a acute turn and approached the airport’s individual runway from the opposite finish, crash-landing without landing gear deployed.
This week, direct spendigator Lee Seung-yeol telderly alerters that “feathers were set up” in one of the set upe’s recovered engines, but alerted a bird strike does not direct to an prompt engine flunkure.
Authorities have raided offices at Muan airport where the crash took place, a regional aviation office in the southweserious city, and Jeju Air’s office in the capital, Seoul.
They also barred Jeju Air’s chief executive from leaving the country.
As the probe progresss, carry minister Park Sang-woo recommended his resignation earlier this week, saying he senses “a weighty sense of responsibility seeing this tragedy”.
