The black box of plane that suffered a fatal accident in South Korea last december It stopped recording two kilometers before the ship reached the runway, revealed a preliminary report published by authorities this Monday.
This is the first report made public as part of the investigation into the accident on December 29 at the Muan International Airport, which It left 179 dead of the 181 people who were on board.
Preliminary findings will be sent to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), as well as aviation authorities in the United States, France and Thailand, according to the Ministry of Transport.
According to the report, the black box stopped recording at 8:58:50 a.m. on December 29, four minutes and seven seconds before the plane crashed with a locator near the runway.
The report also indicated that The exact moment of impact with the bird has not yet been determined.which allegedly caused the accident, or the number of birds involved and whether other bird species were present.
The explosion of the Boeing 737-800 took place at 9:03, just after the plane crashed into a concrete wall off the runway after touching down without activating the landing gear or other braking devices.
Minutes before touching down, the pilot of flight 7C2216 had issued a distress alert and notified the air traffic control tower that the aircraft had been affected by a bird strike.
The South Korean Ministry of Transportation noted that although black box data is essential For the accident investigation, these are not your only sources for information about the accident.
South Korean authorities They will continue analyzing air traffic recordsvideo recordings of the accident and the remains found at the scene of the accident.
The accident, in which only two members of the plane’s crew survived, has led the low-cost airline Jeju Air to cut its correspondence from Busan (southeast of the country) during the first quarter to strengthen your aircraft maintenance operationsin full scrutiny of the causes of the accident.
