The authorities consider three hypotheses about the accident: bird strike, landing gear failure and presence of this obstacle on the runway
The black boxes of the Jeju Air Boeing, in which 179 people died after falling on December 29th at Muan, South Koreastopped recording four minutes before the crash, South Korea’s Transport Ministry said Saturday.
“Analysis revealed that neither the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) nor the flight data recorder (FDR) recorded during the four minutes before the plane crashed” into a concrete wall on the runway, the ministry said.
The Boeing 737-800 of the low-cost airline Jeju Air, coming from Bangkok, made an emergency landing without having activated the landing gear at Muan airport, in the south-west, and ended up colliding with a localizer, one instrument installed by navigation aids here on a concrete wall.
In the accident, the worst airline disaster in the country’s history, 179 passengers died. Two crew members survived.
The authorities still intend to “investigate the cause of the data loss,” the statement said. Experts from South Korea and the United States, where manufacturer Boeing is from, are leading the investigation.
At the moment the hypotheses being examined are a possible bird strike, a landing gear failure and the presence of this obstacle on the runway.
The pilot sent a bird strike warning message before initiating the first landing attempt. On the second attempt, the landing gear did not open. /AFP
Source: Terra
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