Seoul: Investigators in South Korea have extracted data from one of two black boxes retrieved from Jeju Air plane that crashed shortly after landing on Sunday, in which all 181 were killed, from which only two survived.
Country’s deputy minister for civil aviation Joo Jong-wan, said, they plan to start converting data into audio to hear pilots’ final communications.
Authorities are hoping the voice recorder, along with a second black box containing the flight data recorder, will provide crucial clues about events leading up to the pilot’s attempt to land after the aircraft’s landing gear apparently failed to deploy.
The aircraft careered along the runway before hitting a barrier and bursting into flames, killing everyone aboard except two flight attendants who were pulled from the burning wreckage at the rear of the aircraft.
An “initial extraction (of the cockpit voice recorder) has already been completed,” Joo said. “Based on this preliminary data, we plan to start converting it into audio format,” he added, which will enable investigators to hear the pilots’ final communications.
