According to South Korea’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism on January 11, after investigation, it was found that the two “black boxes” of the Jeju Air crashed passenger plane were the “flight data recorder” and the “cockpit voice recorder”.None of them include the last four minutes before the passenger plane hit the concrete facility at the end of the runway.

In other words, from 8:59 a.m. local time on the day of the crash to 9:03 a.m. when the passenger plane hit the concrete facility and exploded and caught fire, the four minutes of flight data and cockpit voice were not recorded. Currently, investigators are still analyzing why this happened.


South Korean Jeju Air flight 7C2216, which took off from Bangkok, Thailand, crashed when landing at Muan Airport in Jeollanam-do at about 9:7 a.m. on December 29, 2024, local time in South Korea. Of the 175 passengers and 6 crew members on board, all 179 people were killed except for 2 flight attendants who were rescued.

Aircraft are generally equipped with two black boxes, namely the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder.

On January 2, South Korea’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism stated that the person responsible for the crashed Jeju Air passenger planeThe voice recorder data was converted that morning, and accident investigators are analyzing the voice recordings in the cabin at the time of the incident.

The crashed passenger planeThe flight data recorder was partially damaged and was sent to the National Transportation Safety Board in Washington for analysis. On the morning of January 8, South Korean officials said that the flight data recorder of the crashed passenger plane had arrived in the United States, and relevant departments in South Korea and the United States have begun work on data extraction and analysis.