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Both Jeju Air black boxes found: officials

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Firefighters and rescue personnel work near the scene where a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 series aircraft crashed and burst into flames at Muan International Airport in South Jeolla Province, some 288 kilometres southwest of Seoul on December 29, 2024. A Jeju Air plane carrying 181 people from Thailand to South Korea crashed on arrival, smashing into a barrier and bursting into flames, leaving all but two feared dead. - - South Korea OUT / NO ARCHIVES - RESTRICTED TO SUBSCRIPTION USE. - YONHAP / AFPFirefighters and rescue personnel work near the scene where a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 series aircraft crashed and burst into flames at Muan International Airport in South Jeolla Province, some 288 kilometres southwest of Seoul on December 29, 2024. A Jeju Air plane carrying 181 people from Thailand to South Korea crashed on arrival, smashing into a barrier and bursting into flames, leaving all but two feared dead. - - South Korea OUT / NO ARCHIVES - RESTRICTED TO SUBSCRIPTION USE. - YONHAP / AFP

SEOUL: Both black boxes -- the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder -- for Jeju Air flight 2216 have been found, a transport official said Sunday, after the Boeing 737-800 crashed on landing, killing 179 people.

“Regarding the black boxes, both the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder have now been retrieved,“ deputy transport minister Joo Jong-wan said at a briefing.