South Korea says initial data extracted from Jeju Air cockpit recorder | Aviation News [Video]

Investigators probing the deadly crash of Jeju Air Flight 2216 in South Korea have retrieved the initial data from one of the aircraft’s black boxes, officials have said.

Joo Jong-wan, deputy minister for civil aviation, said on Wednesday that the “initial extraction” of data from the cockpit voice recorder had been completed.

“Based on this preliminary data, we plan to start converting it into audio format,” he said.

Joo said the plane’s second black box, the flight data recorder, would be sent to the United States for analysis as local investigators were unable to recover the information it contained due to damage it suffered in the crash.

Flight 2216 crashed at Muan International Airport, about 290km (180 miles) southwest of Seoul, on Sunday morning, killing 179 of 181 people on board.

The crash was the worst-ever air disaster on South Korean soil and the deadliest accident involving a South Korean …