Investigators have completed extracting knowledge from one of many black containers from the fated Jeju Air airplane that crashed on Sunday, South Korea’s transport ministry has stated.
The information from the cockpit voice recorder will now be transformed into an audio file, whereas a second black field – a flight knowledge recorder – will probably be despatched to the US for evaluation.
Investigators hope knowledge on the flight and voice recorders will present insights concerning the essential moments main as much as the tragedy.
Some 179 folks died after the airplane crashed right into a construction and exploded, making it the deadliest airplane crash on South Korean soil.
Investigators say it isn’t possible to regionally decode the flight knowledge recorder, which was broken within the crash and is lacking a vital connector.
South Korean specialists will probably be concerned within the evaluation course of within the US, they stated, including that they’re in dialogue with the US Nationwide Transportation Security Board (NTSB) on when at hand over the flight knowledge recorder.
NTSB has deployed officers to the crash website in South Korea’s Muan county to assist examine the reason for the airplane crash.
The Boeing 737-800 airplane was travelling from Bangkok when it crash-landed at Muan Worldwide Airport on Sunday and slid right into a wall off the top of the runway, bursting into flames and killing everybody on board besides two crew members.
Many questions stay unanswered and investigators are trying on the position a chicken strike or climate situations might have performed.
They’re additionally inspecting the concrete wall on the finish of the runway, which some specialists say may have exacerbated the influence of the crash.
The passengers on flight 7C2216 had been aged between three and 78 years outdated, though most had been of their 40s, 50s and 60s, in accordance with Yonhap information company. Two Thai nationals are among the many useless and the remaining are believed to be South Korean, authorities have stated.
It had taken officers days to determine the our bodies by way of fingerprints or DNA – with saliva samples collected from members of the family – as a lot of them have been severely broken.
However on Wednesday, appearing president Choi Sang-mok introduced that each one 179 victims on board the flight have now been recognized.
New 12 months’s Day celebrations throughout the nation have been cancelled or scaled down out of respect for the victims and their household, and authorities have introduced a seven-day interval of nationwide mourning.
At a press convention on Tuesday, Jeju Air CEO Kim Yi-bae stated that the airline was making ready emergency compensation for the victims’ households and would cowl funeral prices.
He additionally stated {that a} pre-flight inspection of the airplane had discovered “no points”. Investigations into the reason for the crash are nonetheless ongoing.