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Harm To Flight Information Recorder Anticipated To Extend Investigation Course of For Jeju Air Aircraft Crash


The investigation may take a very long time.

In accordance with a report from Yonhap Information, the flight knowledge recorder of Jeju Air Flight 2216 was discovered to be partially broken, thus extending the time wanted to investigate the info.

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Jeju Air aircraft crash | Yonhap Information

On December 29 at round 9am KST, Jeju Air Flight 2216, which originated from Bangkok, Thailand, crashed at Muan Worldwide Airport in South Korea.

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After half a day of rescue and restoration efforts, 179 passengers and crew members have been confirmed lifeless. There have been solely two survivors, who have been seated on the very again of the aircraft.

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Jeju Air aircraft crash | SBS

Authorities recovered the flight knowledge recorder and cockpit voice recorder (additionally generally referred to as the black bins), that are essential to discovering what precisely occurred on the doomed flight.

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Cockpit voice recorder (reference picture; not the precise recorder from Jeju Air Flight 2216) | NTSB

Whereas the cockpit voice recorder was discovered intact, the flight knowledge recorder is alleged to have some harm, in response to the Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Board in South Korea.

As a result of harm, an official from the investigation board acknowledged that it may take at the very least a month to decode the flight knowledge. If the recorder was discovered intact, the method usually takes per week to finish.

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Jeju Air aircraft crash | Yonhap Information

One other official acknowledged that if it’s tough to investigate the recorders in South Korea, they might be despatched to the USA to be examined by the Nationwide Transportation Security Board (also referred to as the “NTSB“). This is able to additional extend the method because the NTSB offers with circumstances from everywhere in the world.

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NTSB emblem | NTSB

Even after the recorders have been examined, the comprehensiveness and complexity of an air crash investigation may imply it’ll be years earlier than we discover out precisely what occurred on board Jeju Air Flight 2216.

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