The flight data and cockpit voice recorders on the Jeju Air jet that crashed last month stopped recording about four minutes before the airliner hit a concrete structure at South Korea's Muan airport, according to the nation's transport ministry.
Firefighters work on the wreckage of the Jeju Air plane that crashed on December 30, killing 179 people.The flight data and cockpit voice recorders on the Jeju Air jet that crashed last month stopped recording about four minutes before the airliner hit a concrete structure at South Korea's Muan airport.
Park Sang-woo said "I feel heavy responsibility for this disaster," and that he will try to find the right time to resign from his post. The damaged flight data recorder was taken to the United States for analysis in cooperation with the US safety regulator, the ministry has said. But instead of making a full go-about, the budget airline's Boeing 737-800 jet took a sharp turn and approached the airport's single runway from the opposite end, crash-landing without landing gear deployed.The investigation into the Jeju Air plane crash will take several weeks, but some experts say the placement of a concrete barrier at Muan Airport may have played a key role in the deadly aviation disaster.
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