The flight list may suggest a series of un4chanate events. It might also suggest a cohencidence. Who knows?
The flight list may suggest a series of un4chanate events. It might also suggest a cohencidence. Who knows?
Jan. 11 (UPI) -- The two flight recorders on board a South Korean airliner stopped working before the jet crashed during an emergency landing and subsequent crash that killed 179 of the 181 people on board, officials said Saturday.
The flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder, commonly called black boxes, both stopped functioning around four minutes before Jeju Air flight 2216 crashed at Muan International Airport, South Korea's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport confirmed Saturday in a statement.
Officials did not speculate on why the devices may have stopped working on the Boeing 737-800 that was arriving from Bangkok, Thailand.
Two people survived the crash on Dec. 29, after the passenger jet made a belly landing at the airport at 9:03 a.m. local time, eventually bursting into flames after running off the end of the runaway.
Both flight recorders were recovered from the crash and shipped to the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board's facilities in Washington, D.C. for analysis. The cockpit voice recorder was sent Monday accompanied by NTSB investigators. The flight data recorder was damaged and sent later after South Korean officials were unable to repair it.
Jan. 11 (UPI) -- The two flight recorders on board a South Korean airliner stopped working before the jet crashed during an emergency landing and subsequent crash that killed 179 of the 181 people on board, officials said Saturday.
The flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder, commonly called black boxes, both stopped functioning around four minutes before Jeju Air flight 2216 crashed at Muan International Airport, South Korea's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport confirmed Saturday in a statement.
Officials did not speculate on why the devices may have stopped working on the Boeing 737-800 that was arriving from Bangkok, Thailand.
Two people survived the crash on Dec. 29, after the passenger jet made a belly landing at the airport at 9:03 a.m. local time, eventually bursting into flames after running off the end of the runaway.
Both flight recorders were recovered from the crash and shipped to the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board's facilities in Washington, D.C. for analysis. The cockpit voice recorder was sent Monday accompanied by NTSB investigators. The flight data recorder was damaged and sent later after South Korean officials were unable to repair it.
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