Firefighters and rescue personnel work near the scene where a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 series aircraft crashed and burst into flames at Muan International Airport in South Jeolla Province, some 288 kilometers southwest of Seoul on December 29, 2024. (Photo by YONHAP / AFP)
Seoul: Both black boxes -- the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder -- for Jeju Air flight 2216 have been found, a transport official said Sunday, after the Boeing 737-800 crashed on landing, killing 179 people.
"Regarding the black boxes, both the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder have now been retrieved," deputy transport minister Joo Jong-wan said at a briefing.
