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Investigators into the Jeju Airlines Boeing 737-800 crash, which killed 179 people in South Korea’s worst aviation disaster, were able to extract preliminary data from one of the stricken plane’s black boxes, an official announced Wednesday.
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“The initial extraction of the cockpit voice recorder has already been completed,” said Vice Civil Aviation Minister Cho Jong-wan, noting that experts are still trying to extract data from the second black box that records data flight.
The plane, owned by Jeju, which specializes in low-cost flights, was carrying 181 people on board a flight from Thailand to Muan (southwest), when it issued a distress call before landing without wheels on the runway airport, sliding, then. collision at the end of the runway with a wall and explosion.
All 175 passengers and six crew on board the plane were killed as a result of the accident, except for two, the two crew members.
Immediately after the two black boxes were found, South Korean authorities began examining them, while American investigators, some from Boeing, arrived at the crash site.