The first analysis of reveals that both devices stopped recording data four minutes before the device crashed into a wall during its forced landing in one of the greatest air tragedies in the country’s history.
The analysis, carried out by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), has found that neither the flight data recorder (FDR) nor the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) contain information about what happened from 8:59 a.m. to 9:03 a.m.the latter the exact moment in which the plane was destroyed in an impact that ended the lives of 179 occupants.
“The analysis has revealed that both CVR and FDR data were not recorded during the four minutes prior to the aircraft collision with the locator (wall), the South Korean Ministry of Transportation confirmed in a statement collected by the country’s official news agency, Yonhap.
The South Korean authorities decided to send the black boxes to the United States to obtain better results from their
Right now the theory prevails that the plane collided with a flock of birds, following an alert issued by the control tower.l six minutes before the accident, and which could have affected the landing hydraulic system: The plane ended up touching the ground on its belly and the pilots were unable to stop the device in time.
