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South Korean officials announced that investigators have obtained initial data from the cockpit voice recorder of Jeju Air Flight 2216, the plane that crashed at Muan International Airport.
“The initial extraction of data from the cockpit voice recorder has been completed. We plan to convert the data into audio format for analysis,” Joo Jong-wan, South Korea’s vice minister of civil aviation, said on January 1.
The second black box, the flight data recorder, was severely damaged in the crash and will be sent to the United States for analysis, as South Korean investigators were unable to recover data from it.
Jeju Air Flight 2216 crashed while landing at Muan International Airport, about 290 kilometers southwest of Seoul. The accident killed 179 of the 181 people on board, making it the worst aviation disaster ever to occur on South Korean soil.
It was also the deadliest accident involving a South Korean airline since a Korean Air Boeing 747 crashed in Guam in 1997, killing 228 people.
Aviation experts have put forward several theories about the cause of the accident, including bird strikes, technical failures, pilot error and the presence of a concrete embankment less than 300 metres from the end of the runway.
According to initial reports, the Boeing 737-800 belly-landed on the runway without deploying its landing gear after the pilot reported a bird strike. The plane then slid into a concrete embankment and burst into flames.
South Korean authorities, along with investigators from Boeing and the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), are focusing on the role of the concrete embankment in the accident.
Some aviation experts say the embankment should be placed further from the runway or made of softer material to reduce the impact in the event of a collision.
On the same day, South Korean authorities announced that they had identified all 179 victims. However, the victims' families expressed dissatisfaction with the time taken to verify the identities and hand over the bodies.
The identification process has been slow and difficult due to the extent of damage to the bodies in the crash, officials said, but the process has been completed, bringing some comfort to grieving families.
The investigation into the cause of the accident is ongoing, with the cooperation of domestic and foreign experts. The initial findings will play an important role in improving aviation safety in Korea and preventing similar tragedies from occurring in the future.
