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Jeju Air Plane Crash: Jeju Air passenger plane landed at Muan International Airport and exploded. The plane skidded off the runway while landing, its landing gear did not open, it hit a concrete wall and burst into flames.read more
highlights
- Jeju Air’s black box was not working for 4 minutes before the crash.
- 179 people died in the accident, 2 crew members survived.
- Warnings about bird collision were given before the accident.
Sol. The black box of the passenger plane that met with a terrible accident last month at South Korea’s southwestern airport was not working for the last four minutes. The Transport Ministry gave this information on Saturday. According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, examination of the ‘Flight Data Recorder’ (FDR) and Cockpit ‘Voice Recorder’ (CVR) of the ill-fated aircraft by the ‘US National Transportation Safety Board’ revealed that the ‘FDR’ and ‘CVR’ Data storage in both had shut down about four minutes before impact with the localizer.
The ministry’s Aviation Railway Accident Investigation Committee planned to identify the reason for not storing the data. Localizer means a part of the ‘instrument landing system’ that provides runway centerline guidance to the aircraft. On Dec. 29 last year, a Jeju Air passenger jet carrying 181 people from Bangkok landed without wheels, skidded off the runway and crashed into the localizer at the end of the runway at Muan International Airport, about 290 kilometers southwest of the capital Seoul. The equipment collided with a mound of concrete.
Jeju Air Flight 2216, which crashed at Muan International Airport on December 29, 2024, had its black boxes stop recording four minutes prior to the incident. pic.twitter.com/ppXkdoklc6
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