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The flight data and cockpit voice recorders of the South Korean passenger plane that crashed last month stopped recording four minutes before the crash, the country’s transport ministry said.
The Jeju Air crash killed 179 people, making it the world’s deadliest disaster in Korea. The two workers in the cabin were the only survivors.
Investigators were hopeful that the contents of the recordings could provide information about the crucial time before the disaster.
The ministry has said it will investigate what caused the “black boxes” to stop recording.
The footage was reviewed in South Korea, the ministry said.
When the data was found to be missing, it was taken to the US and analyzed by American security officials.
The plane was en route from Bangkok on December 29 when it crashed at Muan International Airport and crashed into a wall at the end of the runway, bursting into flames.
Sim Jai-dong, a former accident investigator at the transport ministry, told Reuters the loss of information from the last minute was shocking and said all power, including repatriation, could have been cut.
Many questions remain unanswered. Researchers have been looking for that role bird strike or the weather may have played a role.
They also looked into why the Boeing 737-800 did not have its landing gear down when it hit the runway.
