Mystery of South Korean plane crash deepens: What happened to the black boxes?

2025-01-11 19:08:05Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Mystery of South Korean plane crash deepens

The true causes that led to the plane crash in South Korea on December 29, which claimed the lives of 179 people, will likely remain a mystery.

This is after the cockpit voice recorder on the Jeju Air plane flying from Bangkok to Muan stopped working 4 minutes before the plane landed on the runway and fatally crashed into a concrete perimeter wall.

Authorities investigating the disaster, the worst in South Korea, plan to analyze what caused the "black boxes" to stop recording, the Ministry of Transport in Seoul said in a statement.

The black boxes were initially analyzed in South Korea and when they discovered that voice data was missing, they were sent to a US National Transportation Safety Board laboratory, which confirmed their damage.

Investigators said the black boxes were crucial to the investigation, but added that they would not give up trying to find out why the crash happened. Minutes before the crash, the pilots told air traffic control that the plane had suffered a bird strike and declared an emergency.

Only two crew members, who were sitting in the tail section of the plane, survived the plane crash.


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