The missing data deepens the puzzle of what caused the deadly air disaster in Muan, South Korea, late last month.

The Jeju Air black boxes aboard a Boeing 737-800 that crashed at Muan Airport on December 29, 2024, failed to record the final minutes of flight data.

Flight data and cockpit voice recorders from the Jeju Air flight that crashed at South Korea's Muan International Airport stopped recording four minutes before the tragedy that claimed 179 lives. On December 29,

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.

According to South Korean authorities, recordings stopped on both devices approximately four minutes before the aircraft collided with a localiser structure.

The flight-data recorder of the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 that crashed on 29 December 2024 has been dispatched to the USA

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

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.

The black boxes of the Jeju Air plane involved in last month's fatal crash has been found to lack data from the final four minutes before the explosion.

The last four minutes of data before the disaster which killed 179 people are missing, transport authorities say.

Authorities have said black boxes holding the flight data and cockpit voice recorders stopped recording around four minutes before the crash.