Both flight data and cockpit voice recorders from the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 that crashed in South Korea have been recovered. The devices are expected to provide crucial insights into the cause of the accident, which killed all but two of the 181 people onboard.
, the black box es carried on the aircraft will be of prime importance, with retrieval of data from the cockpit voice recorder under way.
The devices store flight data such as speed, altitude and fuel levels, as well as voice recordings from the cockpit and other sounds including engine noise and radio transmissions. In some aircraft, both types of data are stored in the same device, while in others the data is stored in two separate devices, as appears to be the case for Jeju Air’s flight 7C2216.
Among key questions are why the plane stopped broadcasting automated tracking data shortly before it hit the runway, why the plane’s landing gear failed to deploy as it prepared to land, and whether the crash could have been down to a bird strike, given air traffic controllers had issued a warning about just such a hazard as the plane approached the runway.
Frank E Turney, the chair of the aviation department for Capitol Technology University in the US, said that while the black boxes could be helpful in an investigation, they were only part of the puzzle.
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