The nation’s transport ministry reviewed structures near airport runways after the deadly crash of a Jeju Air flight late last month.

The flight data and cockpit voice recorders on the Jeju Air jet that crashed on Dec. 29 stopped recording about four minutes before the airliner hit a concrete structure at South Korea's Muan airport,

The airport is the site of the Dec. 29 crash of the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 jet that killed 179 passengers on board.

Jeju Air 7C2216 was flying from the Thai capital of Bangkok to Muan in southwestern South Korea at night when it belly-landed, overshot the runway and burst into flames after hitting an embankment. The aircraft flew every day in 2024, according to flight data reviewed by Reuters.

South Korean officials sent the voice recorder to be analyzed at an NTSB lab in the US after they discovered data was missing.

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's transport ministry said on Monday it aims to change the structures of "localizer" antenna used to guide landings at airports this year.

The two black boxes on the Boeing jet involved in the worst aviation disaster on South Korean soil stopped recording about four minutes before the accident, the transport ministry said on Saturday. South Korean investigators previously said the flight data and cockpit voice recorders were key to finding out the cause of last month's crash that killed 179 people.

The black boxes holding the flight data and cockpit voice recorders for the crashed Jeju Air flight that left 179 people dead stopped recording four minutes before the disaster, South Korea's transport ministry said Saturday.

Following deadly plane crashes in Kazakhstan and South Korea at the end of December 2024, a clip from a flight simulator has racked up more than one million views in social media posts that falsely claimed it showed a real passenger jet crash-landing.

South Korea has decided to extend to April 18 the shutdown of Muan international airport where a Jeju Air passenger jet crashed last month, the transport ministry said on Saturday.

South Korean investigators found feathers in both engines of the Boeing Co. 737-800 jet involved in a crash late last month.