Flight recorders from the passenger jet that crashed in South Korea last month, killing more than 170 people, stopped working minutes before the plane belly-landed and exploded on the runway, investigators said on Saturday.
Officials probing the country's deadliest aviation accident in almost three decades had hoped information from the so-called black boxes would shed light on why Jeju Air flight 7C 2216 from Bangkok belly-landed atBut South Korea's transport ministry said Saturday that both the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from the Boeing 737-800 had stopped working about four minutes before the crash.
"CVR and FDR data are important data for accident investigations, but accident investigations are conducted through investigation and analysis of various data, so we plan to do our best to accurately identify the cause of the accident," the ministry said. Prior to the emergency landing, the pilot made a mayday call and used the terms "bird strike" and "go-around," according to officials, who also said the control tower had warned the pilot of birds in the area.
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