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 discovery could complicate investigations into the cause of the disaster that killed 179 people. The South Korean Transportation Ministry said the U.S.
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“Data from the CVR and FDR are crucial in investigating accidents, but such investigations are conducted through the examination and analysis of various sources of information, and we plan to do our utmost to determine the cause of the accident,” the ministry said in a statement.
South Korean officials have also pledged to improve airport safety after experts linked the high death toll to Muan airport’s localizer system, the structure hit by the aircraft as it crashed. The localizer, a set of antennas designed to guide aircraft during landings, was housed in a concrete structure covered with dirt on an elevated embankment. This has raised questions about whether the structure should have been built with lighter materials that would break more easily upon impact.
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