Recording of flight data ceased four minutes before Jeju Air crash killed 179 people, says transport ministry

Flight data and cockpit voice recorders on the Jeju Air plane that crashed in South Korea last month, killing 179 people, stopped recording about four minutes before the airliner hit a concrete structure at Muan airport, the transport ministry said.

Authorities investigating the disaster, the worst on South Korean soil, plan to analyse what caused the “black boxes” to stop recording, the ministry said.