Flight data and cockpit voice recorders on the Jeju Air jet that crashed on Dec 29, killing 179 people, stopped recording about four minutes before it crashed, South Korea's transport ministry said on Saturday (Jan 11). Here are some details on black boxes and moves to improve them.

Two people, both flight attendants, are the only survivors of the crash and are being treated at South Korean hospitals.

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea plans to improve the structures housing the antenna that guide landings at its airports this year following December's fatal crash of a Jeju Air plane, which skidded off the runway and burst into flames after hitting such a structure.

South Korea’s leading low-cost carrier, heavy with debt and its stock already near record lows, is now facing intense public and government scrutiny.

The two flight recorders on board a South Korean airliner stopped working before the jet crashed during an emergency landing and subsequent crash that killed 179 of the 181 people on board, officials said Saturday.

The discovery of the missing data suggests all power may have been cut, which is rare, a former government accident investigator said.

After overcoming pariah status at the end of the last century, South Korea must learn what caused the catastrophe on Dec. 29 and what lessons to draw from it.

Officials say the black boxes of a Boeing jetliner that crashed in South Korea last month stopped recording about four minutes before the accident.

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