The Boeing 737-800 of the South Korean low-cost airline Jeju Air, coming from Bangkok, landed on its belly and smashed into the obstacle.
Published on 11/01/2025 07:54
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The two black boxes of the Jeju Air Boeing that crashed Dec. 29 in Muan, South Korea, stopped recording four minutes before the crash that killed 179 of 181 passengers, the Transportation Ministry said South Korean, Saturday January 11. The authorities have planned “to investigate the cause of data loss”underlines the press release. Joint investigations between South Korean and American experts, including from Boeing, were launched after the tragedy.
“Analysis revealed that the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) and flight data recorder (FDR) were not recording during the four minutes before the plane collided.” with the wall which was at the end of the runway and caused the device to disintegrate, the ministry said in a press release.
This Boeing 737-800 from the South Korean low-cost airline Jeju Air, coming from Bangkok, landed on its belly at Muan airport (southwest) and crashed into the obstacle. A total of 179 passengers died. Only a flight attendant survived the crash, South Korea’s worst air disaster to date.
The avenues mentioned so far to explain the accident of Jeju Air Flight 2216 are a collision with birds and a malfunction of the landing gear. The presence at the end of the runway of the obstacle struck by the plane – a navigation aid tool installed on a concrete-reinforced mound – is also the subject of an investigation. Before the accident, the pilot had sent a warning message regarding a collision with birds before canceling his first landing attempt. On his second try, the gear was not out.
The flight data recorder stores parameters such as the speed and altitude of the aircraft, but also many other variables, thanks to numerous sensors. The cockpit voice recorder keeps the pilots’ conversations. This information normally provides more information to understand what happened before a crash.
