S. Korea says initial data extracted from Jeju Air crash black box voice recorder


Mourners gathering outside the fence at the site where a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 aircraft crashed and burst into flames at Muan International Airport. - AFP

SEOUL: Investigators probing a Jeju Air crash which killed 179 in South Korea's worst aviation disaster on home soil have extracted the initial data from one of the Boeing 737-800's black boxes, an official said on Wednesday (Jan 1).

For the cockpit voice recorder, "the initial extraction has already been completed," said deputy minister for civil aviation Joo Jong-wan, adding that experts were still reviewing how to extract the data from the second black box, the flight data recorder. - AFP

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