Airliner's final 4 minutes of recordings are missing after crash that killed 179: investigators

The archetypal study connected past month’s Jeju Air clang successful South Korea confirmed the plane’s 2 achromatic boxes stopped signaling astir 4 minutes anterior to the clang that killed 179 radical connected board.

The preliminary mishap study released by South Korea's Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Board connected Monday said the formation information and cockpit dependable recorders connected the Boeing 737-800 had stopped working, confirming what the country's Transportation Ministry initially said earlier this month. 

South Korean officials had sent the devices to the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board for person introspection aft discovering that immoderate of the information was missing. It remained unclear wherefore the devices stopped recording.

The study besides recovered traces of vertebrate strikes – feathers and vertebrate humor stains – successful some the plane's engines, though officials person yet to find what caused the crash.

"The samples were sent to specialized organizations for DNA analysis, and a home enactment identified them arsenic belonging to Baikal teals," the study said, referring to a migratory duck.

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The wreckage of a Boeing 737-800 level operated by South Korean fund hose Jeju Air lies astatine Muan International Airport successful Muan, South Korea, connected Dec. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

The plane skidded disconnected the runway astatine Muan International Airport connected Dec. 29, 2024, aft its landing cogwheel failed to deploy, slamming into a factual operation and bursting into flames. Only 2 of the 181 radical connected committee survived.

Experts from the NTSB and associated probe squad betwixt the U.S. and South Korea cheque the tract of a level clang astatine Muan International Airport successful Muan, South Korea, connected Dec. 31, 2024. (Son Hyung-joo/Yonhap via AP, File)

The formation was returning from Bangkok and each the victims were South Koreans but for 2 Thai nationals.

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Investigators earlier said that aerial postulation controllers warned the pilots astir imaginable vertebrate strikes 2 minutes earlier the craft issued a distress awesome confirming that a vertebrate onslaught had occurred, aft which the pilots attempted an exigency landing.

The preliminary study said the pilots besides noticed a radical of birds portion approaching the runway astatine the Muan airdrome and that a information camera had filmed the level coming adjacent to birds during an aborted landing.

The study said authorities volition disassemble the engines, analyse their components successful depth, analyse the achromatic container and aerial postulation power data, and analyse the embankment, localizer and vertebrate onslaught grounds to yet find the origin of the crash.

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Officials said the study has been sent to the International Civil Aviation Organization, Thailand, the U.S. and France, adding that the craft was built successful the U.S. and its engines successful France.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.