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 black boxes of the ill-fated Jeju Air flight stopped recording four minutes before the crash, South Korea 's transport ministry has revealed. The Boeing 737-800 was flying from Thailand to Muan in South Korea on December 29, when it belly-landed at Muan airport and exploded after hitting a concrete barrier.

While the explosion occurred at 9:03 am on December 29, FDR and CVR ceased recording data starting at 8:59 am, making it challenging for investigators to analyse the situation

The damaged flight data recorder had been deemed unrecoverable for data extraction by South Korean authorities, who sent it to the United States for analysis at the US National Transportation Safety B

Key data is missing from the black boxes of the Boeing Co. 737-800 that crashed on the runway of a South Korean airport last month.

The black boxes from the Jeju Air Co. passenger plane that crashed last month have been found to lack crucial data from the final four minutes before the explosion, Yonhap News Agency reported, citing South Korean investigators.

SEOUL (Reuters) -- 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 transport ministry said on Saturday.

The voice and data recorders pulled from the wreckage of the Jeju Air Co. jet in South Korea failed to capture the final moments before the Boeing Co. 737-800 made an emergency landing and crashed, depriving investigators of evidence to help understand the cause of the country’s deadliest aviation accident.

Flight recorders from the passenger jet that crashed in South Korea last month, killing more than 170 people, stopped working minutes before it exploded on the runway, investigators said Saturday.