Black field of South Korea’s crashed passenger jet fails to work for final 4 minutes

On December 29 final yr, a Jeju Air passenger jet carrying 181 individuals from Bangkok landed with out heels, skidded off the runway and hit a concrete mound geared up with the localizer on the finish of the runway at Muan Worldwide Airport, some 290 km southwest of the capital Seoul.

The accident killed 179 individuals aboard the plane. Two crew have been rescued. Six minutes earlier than the crash, an air visitors controller on the airport warned the aircraft of a chicken strike.

4 minutes earlier than the accident, the aircraft’s captain shouted a Mayday and introduced the return to the airport, Xinhua information company reported. The ministry mentioned an investigation into the accident might be performed via evaluation of assorted knowledge, besides the FDR and the CVR, vowing to make finest efforts to resolve the incident.