12Jan, 25 Jeju 737 crash inquiry suffers setback as neither recorder captures final minutes of flight
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Korean investigators’ efforts to understand the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 crash at Muan have suffered a setback after both flight recorders failed to capture the final 4min of the accident sequence.
The aircraft overran at high speed, striking the mounted localiser, while attempting a gear-up and apparently flapless landing on Muan’s runway 19 – having aborted its original approach to the opposite-direction runway 01.
Only two of the 181 occupants survived the 29 December accident.
Korea’s ministry of transport says that the cockpit-voice …