Jeju Air black boxes stopped recording 4 minutes before crash

South Korea ministry says it will analyze what halted data and voice logs

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Emergency personnel comb the area where a Jeju Air plane crashed in Muan, South Korea, on Dec. 30. © Reuters

SEOUL (Reuters) -- 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 transport ministry said on Saturday.

Authorities investigating the disaster that killed 179 people, the worst on South Korean soil, plan to analyze what caused the "black boxes" to stop recording, the ministry said in a statement.

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