The missing data deepens the puzzle of what caused the deadly air disaster in Muan, South Korea, late last month.

The Ministry of Land, Transport and Infrastructure said Friday that a flight data recorder from Jeju Air’s crashed Boeing 737-800 will be shipped to the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Monday.

The investigation into the tragic crash of Jeju Air flight 2216 is picking up pace. The focus is now on carefully extracting data from the plane’s two black boxes. While the initial extraction of information from the cockpit voice recorder is complete,

The two flight recorders on board a South Korean airliner stopped working before the jet crashed during an emergency landing and subsequent crash that killed 179 of the 181 people on board, officials said Saturday.

The discovery of the missing data suggests all power may have been cut, which is rare, a former government accident investigator said.

The flight-data recorder of the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 that crashed on 29 December 2024 has been dispatched to the USA

South Korean officials sent the voice recorder to be analyzed at an NTSB lab in the US after they discovered data was missing.

A former transport ministry accident investigator said the discovery suggests all power, including backup, may have been cut, which is rare.

Officials say the black boxes of a Boeing jetliner that crashed in South Korea last month stopped recording about four minutes before the accident.

The black boxes of a Boeing jetliner that crashed in South Korea last month stopped recording about four minutes before the accident that killed 179 people, officials said Saturday.

The black boxes of the Jeju Air plane that crash-landed at Muan International Airport last month failed to record the final four minutes before the collision, investigators confirmed. The Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Board (ARAIB) investigating the accident reported on Jan.