South Korea says Jeju Air black packing containers stopped recording earlier than crash

Seoul –
The black packing containers holding the flight information and cockpit voice recorders for the crashed Jeju Air flight that left 179 folks dead stopped recording 4 minutes earlier than the catastrophe, South Korea’s transport ministry mentioned Saturday.

The Boeing 737-800 was flying from Thailand to Muan, South Korea, on Dec. 29 carrying 181 passengers and crew when it belly-landed on the Muan airport and exploded in a fireball after slamming right into a concrete barrier.

It was the worst-ever aviation catastrophe on South Korean soil.