Black boxes stopped recording 4 minutes before crash that killed 179 in South Korea

The black boxes of the Jeju Air Boeing 737-87 that crashed in Muan, South Korea, on December 29, stopped recording four minutes before the incident, South Korea’s Ministry of Transport said on Saturday.

“The analysis revealed that both the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) and the flight data recorder (FDR) did not record during the four minutes prior to the plane’s collision” with a concrete wall on the runway, the ministry stated.

This Boeing 737-800 from the low-cost company Jeju Air, coming from Bangkok, made an emergency landing without activating the landing gear at Muan airport, in the southwest, and ended up colliding with a localizer, a navigation aid tool installed in a concrete wall.