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Flight recorders on doomed Korean airliner stopped recording

Rob Beschizza
Jan 11, 2025
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Steven Byles (CC BY 3.0)

The last minutes of the Jeju Air jet that crash-landed in December, killing all but two aboard, remain a mystery: the black box did not record the flight's final moments after a reported bird strike. Both the flight data and cabin audio recorders lack the last four minutes. The plane's landing gear and flaps did not deploy and it…

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