SEOUL, South Korea -- Grieving relatives of the victims of the South Korea plane crash gathered at the site to pay respects to their loved ones on New Year's Day, as officials said they've extracted data from one of the retrieved black boxes to find the exact cause of the crash.
All but two of the 181 passengers and crew on board the Boeing 737-800 operated by Jeju Air died when it crashed Sunday at Muan International Airport, in southern South Korea.
Video showed the aircraft without its landing gear deployed landing on its belly at high speed and then skidding off the end of the runaway into a concrete fence and bursting into flames. The footage showed the plane was experiencing an apparent engine problem in addition to the landing gear malfunction.
Investigators say the pilot received a warning from air traffic controllers of possible bird strikes and the plane issued a distress signal before the crash.
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The Transport Ministry said in a statement Wednesday that it has completed works to extract data from the cockpit voice recorder -- one of the two black boxes recovered from the wreckage. It said the data would be converted into audio files. A damaged flight data recorder will be sent to the United States for an analysis, the ministry added.
All of the victims were South Korean, except for two Thais nationals, with many returning from Bangkok after Christmas holidays.
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