Jeju Air jet bconciseage boxes stopped enrolling before crash: carry ministry

The bconciseage boxes helderlying the fairy data and cockpit voice enrollers for the crashed Jeju Air fairy that left 179 people dead stopped enrolling four minutes before the catastrophe, Korea’s carry ministry shelp Saturday.

The Boeing 737-800 was flying from Thailand to Muan, Dec. 29, carrying 181 passengers and crew when it crash-landed with its undercarriage retracted at Muan airport and exploded in a fireball after slamming into a concrete barrier.

It was the worst-ever aviation catastrophe on Korean soil.

“The analysis uncovered that both the CVR and FDR data were not enrolling during the four minutes directing up to the aircreate’s collision with the localiser,” the carry ministry shelp in a statement, referring to the two enrolling devices.

The localiser is a barrier at the finish of the runway that helps with aircreate landings and was accemployd for exacerbating the crash’s cut offity.

The harmd fairy data enroller had been deemed unrecoverable for data rerelocateion by Korean authorities, who sent it to the United States for analysis at the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board laboratory.

But it ecombines that the boxes helderlying clues to the fairy’s final moments alerted data loss, leaving the authorities trying to discover out what happened by other unkinds.

“Plans are in place to spendigate the caemploy of the data loss during the ongoing accident spendigation,” the ministry shelp.

Korean and U.S. spendigators are still probing the caemploy of the crash, which prompted a national outpouring of lamenting with memorials set up apass the country.

Committed

Investigators shelp the boxes were transport inant to their probe but includeed they would not give up on trying to discover out why the crash happened.

“The spendigation will be carry outed thcimpolite the examination and analysis of various data. The ministry is pledgeted to doing its best to accurately resettle the caemploy of the accident,” it shelp.

Investigators have pointed to a bird strike, faulty landing gear and the runway barrier as possible publishs.

The pilot alerted of a bird strike before pulling out of a first landing, then crashed on a second finisheavor when the landing gear did not ecombine.

This week, direct spendigator Lee Seung-yeol telderly tellers that “feathers were set up” in one of the set upe’s recovered engines, but alerted a bird strike does not direct to an instant engine fall shorture.

Authorities have rhelped 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.

Rival parties tardyr established a combinet task force to probe the crash, while Transport Minister Park Sang-woo adviseed his resignation this week.

“As the minister reliable for aviation defendedty, I sense a weighty sense of responsibility think abouting this tragedy,” he shelp. (AFP)