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Jacob Phillips

South Korea air crash recorders missing final four minutes

The wrecked tail section of the Jeju Air flight that crashed and burst into flames in South Korea - (YONHAP/AFP via Getty Images)

The black boxes of a Boeing jet that crashed in South Korea last month killing 179 people stopped recording about four minutes before the accident, South Korean officials said Saturday.

After analysing the devices, the US National Transportation Safety Board concluded that both the flight data and cockpit voice recorders stopped working about four minutes before the crash, the South Korean Transportation Ministry said.

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