The missing data deepens the puzzle of what caused the deadly air disaster in Muan, South Korea, late last month.

Flight recorders from the passenger jet that crashed in South Korea last month, killing more than 170 people, stopped working minutes before the plane belly-landed and exploded on the runway, investigators said Saturday.

The two flight recorders on board a South Korean airliner stopped working before the jet crashed during an emergency landing and subsequent crash that killed 179 of the 181 people on board, officials said Saturday.

After analyzing the devices, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board concluded​ that both the flight data and cockpit voice recorders stopped working about four minutes before the crash.

The flight recorder of the Jeju Air passenger jet that crashed last month, killing ​179 people, stopped recording for​

The Jeju Air black boxes aboard a Boeing 737-800 that crashed at Muan Airport on December 29, 2024, failed to record the final minutes of flight data.

The black boxes of the Jeju Air plane involved in last month's fatal crash has been found to lack data from the final four minutes before the explosion.

The last four minutes of data before the disaster which killed 179 people are missing, transport authorities say.

The investigation into the tragic crash of Jeju Air flight 2216 is picking up pace. The focus is now on carefully extracting data from the plane’s two black boxes. While the initial extraction of information from the cockpit voice recorder is complete,

Authorities have said black boxes holding the flight data and cockpit voice recorders stopped recording around four minutes before the crash.