The missing data deepens the puzzle of what caused the deadly air disaster in Muan, South Korea, late last month.

The two black boxes on the Boeing jet involved in the worst aviation disaster on South Korean soil stopped recording about four minutes before the accident, the transport ministry said on Saturday. So

According to reports, the pilots declared an emergency following a bird strike and initiated a go-around procedure. However, instead of completing a full circuit to reattempt the landing, the aircraft executed a sharp turn and approached the runway from the opposite direction. The crash landing occurred without the landing gear deployed.

South Korean and United States investigators are still probing the cause of the crash of Jeju Air flight 2216.

The flight data and cockpit voice recorders on the Jeju Air jet that crashed on Dec. 29 stopped recording four minutes before the airliner hit a concrete structure at South Korea's Muan airport, the transport ministry said on Saturday.

South Korea’s leading low-cost carrier, heavy with debt and its stock already near record lows, is now facing intense public and government scrutiny.

South Korean officials sent the voice recorder to be analyzed at an NTSB lab in the US after they discovered data was missing.

The black boxes holding the flight data and cockpit voice recorders for the crashed Jeju Air flight that left 179 people dead stopped recording four

The damaged flight data recorder had been deemed unrecoverable for data extraction by South Korean authorities, who sent it to the United States for analysis at the US National Transportation Safety B

The black boxes of the ill-fated Jeju Air flight stopped recording four minutes before the crash, South Korea 's transport ministry has revealed. The Boeing 737-800 was flying from Thailand to Muan in South Korea on December 29, when it belly-landed at Muan airport and exploded after hitting a concrete barrier.