Jeju Air Flight Accident Black Box Checks Whether It Can Be Analyzed Today

Whether it is possible to analyze the black box to determine the cause of the Jeju Air plane disaster at Muan International Airport in Jeollanam-do will be determined today (30th).

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said it will move the black boxes collected from the site to the Gimpo Airport Test Analysis Center today (30th) to check whether they can be analyzed.

An aircraft's black box refers to a flight recorder containing the flight path and the operation status of each unit, and a voice recorder containing conversations and communications between crew members in the control room.

While some are raising the possibility that the data on the flight recorder may have been compromised, if the damage is severe and the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board is required to investigate, the black box decoding process is expected to take more than six months.