Flight recorders from the passenger jet that crashed in South Korea last month, killing more than 170 people, stopped working minutes before the plane belly-landed and exploded on the runway, investigators said Saturday.
ByFlight recorders stopped working minutes before a South Korea plane crash killed more than 170 people, investigators said., killing more than 170 people, stopped working minutes before the plane belly-landed and exploded on the runway, investigators said Saturday.
In a statement, the ministry said it was unclear why the devices stopped recording, adding that it will work to determine the cause. The flight data recorder, which was damaged and missing a connector, was sent to the National Transportation Safety Board in the US last week for analysis, after South Korean authorities concluded they could not extract data from the device, due to the damage.The crash was the country's deadliest since 1997, when a Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 crashed in the Guam jungle, with the loss of 228 lives.
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