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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Vishwam Sankaran

Mystery over South Korean plane crash thickens as investigators say black boxes were not recording

Flight data and cockpit voice recorders on the South Korean Jeju Air plane which crashed last month, killing 179 people, stopped recording about four minutes before it came down at Muan airport, the country’s transport ministry said on Saturday.

Authorities investigating the devastating crash said the plane’s black boxes stopped recording four minutes before the airliner hit a concrete structure at the end of the runway at Muan.

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