After analyzing the devices, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board concluded​ that both the flight data and cockpit voice recorders stopped working about four minutes before the crash.

South Korea said it planned to improve the structures housing the antennas that guide landings at its airports this year after December's fatal crash of a Jeju Air plane, which skidded off the runway and burst into flames after hitting such a structure.

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Only two people were rescued and 179 people died in the plane crash on Sunday morning at the international airport in the city of Muan in southwestern South Korea. All bodies have been recovered. Source: South Korean news agency Yonhap,

South Korean officials plan to conduct safety inspections of all Boeing 737-800 aircraft operated by the country’s airlines, as they struggle to determine what caused a weekend plane crash that killed

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea plans to improve the structures housing the antenna that guide landings at its airports this year following December's fatal crash of a Jeju Air plane, which skidded off the runway and burst into flames after hitting such a structure.