MADRID Jan. 11 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The first analysis of the two black boxes of the Jeju Air plane that crashed last month in South Korea reveals that both devices stopped recording data four minutes before the device crashed into a wall during its forced landing in one of the largest air tragedies in the history of the country.
The analysis, carried out by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), has found that neither the flight data recorder (FDR) nor the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) acronym in English) contain information about what happened from 08:59 to 09:03, the latter the exact moment in which the plane was destroyed in an impact that ended the lives of 179 occupants.
“Analysis has revealed that both CVR and FDR data were not recorded during the four minutes prior to the collision of the aircraft with the localizer (wall),” the South Korean Ministry of Transport confirmed in a statement. statement collected by the country’s official news agency, Yonhap.
The South Korean authorities decided to send the black boxes to the United States to obtain better results from their analysis and to clarify once and for all the causes of the accident on December 29 at the Muan international airport.
Right now the prevailing theory is that the plane collided with a flock of birds, following an alert issued by the control tower six minutes before the accident, and that it could have affected the landing hydraulic system: the plane ended up touching down on his belly and the pilots could not stop the device in time.
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