Flight data recorder from crashed South Korea plane to be sent to US for analysis [Video]

The South Korean government on Wednesday said it will send the flight data recorder from the crashed Jeju Aeroplane to the United States for analysis.

The exact timeline for the transfer of the flight recorder will be decided in consultation with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said in a briefing, reports Yonhap news agency.

The flight recorder, retrieved earlier from the wreckage of the Jeju Air B737-800 aircraft at Muan International Airport, reportedly sustained some external damage, missing a connector that links its data storage unit to the power supply.

“We have determined that extracting data from the damaged flight data recorder here is not possible,” said Joo Jong-wan, director of the aviation policy division at the ministry. “And so we have agreed with the NTSB to send it to the US and analyse it there.”

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