Black packing containers on crashed South Korean aircraft lower out earlier than impression, inquiry finds | South Korea aircraft crash

Flight knowledge and cockpit voice recorders on the Jeju Air aircraft that crashed in South Korea in December, killing 179 folks, stopped recording about 4 minutes earlier than the airliner hit a concrete construction at Muan airport, the transport ministry stated.

Authorities investigating the catastrophe, the worst aircraft crash on South Korean soil, plan to analyse what precipitated the black packing containers to cease recording, the ministry stated.

The voice recorder was initially analysed in South Korea, and, when knowledge was discovered to be lacking, was then despatched to a US Nationwide Transportation Security Board laboratory, the ministry stated.

The broken flight knowledge recorder was taken to the US for evaluation in cooperation with the US security regulator, the ministry stated.

Jeju Air flight 7C2216, which departed the Thai capital, Bangkok, for Muan in south-western South Korea, belly-landed and overshot the regional airport’s runway, exploding into flames after hitting an embankment.

The pilots advised air site visitors management the plane had suffered a hen strike and declared an emergency about 4 minutes earlier than it crashed. Two injured crew members, sitting within the tail part, had been rescued.

Sim Jai-dong, a former transport ministry accident investigator, stated the invention of the lacking knowledge from the essential remaining minutes was shocking and recommended all energy together with backup could have been lower, which is uncommon.

The transport ministry stated different knowledge was obtainable and could be used within the investigation, which it stated could be clear, with data being shared with the victims’ households.

Some members of the victims’ households have stated the ministry mustn’t take the lead within the investigation, however that it ought to contain impartial consultants, together with these beneficial by the households.

The investigation of the crash has additionally centered on the embankment, which was designed to prop up the “localiser” system, used to help plane touchdown, elevating questions as to why it was constructed with such inflexible materials and so near the tip of the runway.