Plane Crash: South Korea Extracts Data From One Of Two Black Boxes

Investigators in South Korea have recovered data from one of the two "black boxes" retrieved from a Jeju Air plane that crashed shortly after landing on Sunday.

Daily Post reported that all but two of the 181 people aboard were killed in the crash.

The country’s Deputy Minister for Civil Aviation, Joo Jong-wan, revealed to journalists that initial data had been retrieved from the Boeing 737-800’s cockpit voice recorder, the Guardian UK reports.

The minister further added that the contents were being converted into audio format.

“Initial extraction (of the cockpit voice recorder) has already been completed,” Joo said.

He stated that investigators will start converting the voice data into audio format based on the preliminary data.

According to Jong-wan, this would enable investigators to hear the pilots’ final comments before the crash occurred.

He added that the flight data recorder was found with a missing connector but revealed that “experts are currently conducting a final review to determine how to extract data from it.”

It was unclear how long it would take officials to convert the data from the voice recorder.