Jeju crash: South Korea secures black boxes from crashed passenger jet

SEOUL (Bernama-Xinhua): South Korea's Transport Ministry said on Sunday (Dec 29) that its investigation unit has secured both of the black boxes from a crashed passenger jet that has killed at least 167, Xinhua reports.

An official with the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said in a televised press briefing that the retrieval of both flight data and voice recorders was completed to look into the exact cause of the accident.

The passenger plane with 175 passengers, including 173 South Koreans and two Thais, as well as six flight attendants on board crashed while attempting to land at the Muan International Airport, some 290km southwest of the capital Seoul, at about 9.07am local time on Sunday. - Bernama-Xinhua