The nation’s transport ministry reviewed structures near airport runways after the deadly crash of a Jeju Air flight late last month.

The flight data and cockpit voice recorders on the Jeju Air jet that crashed on Dec. 29 stopped recording about four minutes before the airliner hit a concrete structure at South Korea's Muan airport,

The airport is the site of the Dec. 29 crash of the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 jet that killed 179 passengers on board.

Investigators have confirmed the presence of bird feathers and blood in both engines of the Jeju Air jet that crashed last month in South Korea, killing 179 people, according to a source familiar with the ongoing probe.

Jeju Air 7C2216 was flying from the Thai capital of Bangkok to Muan in southwestern South Korea at night when it belly-landed, overshot the runway and burst into flames after hitting an embankment. The aircraft flew every day in 2024, according to flight data reviewed by Reuters.

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

A total of 179 people were killed in the worst aviation disaster on South Korean soil. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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 black boxes holding the flight data and cockpit voice recorders for the crashed Jeju Air flight that left 179 people dead stopped recording four minutes before the disaster, South Korea's transport ministry said Saturday.