South Korea will send the black boxes of the Boeing 737-800 that crashed in Muan on Sunday to the United States. In South Korea, it is not possible to read information from damaged recorders, said Joo Jong-wan, deputy minister of civil aviation. 179 people died in the plane crash.
– Since it is impossible to recover the information contained in the damaged flight data recorders in South Korea, the decision was made today to transport them to USA for analysis in cooperation with American investigators – the deputy minister announced at the briefing.
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Air disaster in South Korea
Among the possible causes of the crash of a Jeju Air plane at Muan airport in the southwest South Korea the city's fire brigade chief Lee Jung-hyun mentioned, among others: bird strike and weather conditions. South Korea's transport ministry announced that the air traffic control tower warned the pilots of the Jeju Air plane of a possible bird strike shortly before the tragedy.
Footage of the crash broadcast by YTN showed the Jeju Air plane gliding at high speed down the runway, apparently with the landing gear closed, and colliding head-on with a concrete wall at the end of the runway. The 15-year-old Boeing 737-800 was on a flight from the capital ThailandBangkok.
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There were 181 people on board the passenger plane. Two crew members survived the plane crash.
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