Air crash recorders in South Korea are missing for the last few minutes

The flight data and cockpit recorders of the South Korean passenger plane that crashed last month stopped recording four minutes before the crash, the country’s transport ministry said.

The Jeju Air flight crash killed 179 people, making it the deadliest plane crash on Korean soil. Only two crew members survived.

Investigators hoped that the recorders’ data would allow them to learn about the decisive moments before the tragedy.

The ministry said it would analyze what caused the black boxes to stop recording.

The recorders were initially researched in South Korea, the ministry said.

When the data was found to be missing, it was brought to the US and analyzed by US security agencies.

The plane was flying from Bangkok on December 29 when it made an emergency landing at Mueang International Airport and crashed into a wall at the end of the runway, bursting into flames.

Sim Jae-dong, a former accident investigator at the transport ministry, told Reuters news agency that the loss of data in the crucial final minutes was surprising and suggested that all power, including backup power, may have been cut.

Many questions remain unanswered. Investigators looked into the role of this the sound of birds or played the weather conditions.

They also focused on why the landing gear of the Boeing 737-800 did not descend when it hit the runway.