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South Korea Extracting Cockpit Recorder Data From Crashed Plane
- Flight data recorder missing cable connecting to power unit
- Investigators believe bird strikes may have caused the crash
Investigators inspect the wreckage of Jeju Air Co. Flight 2216 at Muan International Airport on Dec. 30.
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South Korea’s effort to find the cause of the country’s deadliest plane crash that killed 179 people made some headway on Tuesday, as authorities started extracting data from the Boeing Co. 737-800 aircraft’s cockpit voice recorder.
The device was one of the two “black-boxes” that Korean investigators retrieved from the wreckage of the plane operated by Jeju Air Co. The instrument, which records radio transmissions and pilot’s voices, could offer clues into how the plane ended up skidding on its belly before crashing into the concrete wall at the end of the runway at Muan International Airport on Sunday morning.