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THE black box on the Jeju Air jet that crashed in South Korea stopped recording data just minutes before the disaster, officials said. The crash at Muan International Airport on December 29 killed 179 people on board after the plane hit a wall at the end of the runway after an emergency landing and exploded into a fireball. As authorities investigate the worst airline disaster on South Korean soil, the transport ministry revealed that flight data and cockpit voice recorders stopped processing data four minutes before the crash. The ministry is now investigating how the aircraft's black boxes - which...

The flight data and cockpit voice recorders on the Jeju Air jet that crashed on Dec. 29 stopped recording about four minutes before the airliner hit a concrete structure at South Korea’s Muan airport, the transport ministry said on Saturday. Authorities investigating the disaster that killed 179 people, the worst on South Korean soil, plan to analyze what caused the “black boxes” to stop recording, the ministry said in a statement. The voice recorder was initially analyzed in South Korea, and, when data was found to be missing, sent to a US National Transportation Safety Board laboratory, the ministry said....

DES MOINES, Iowa – On September 19, 2019, a federal grand jury returned an Indictment charging defendants, Jessica Rae Reznicek and Ruby Katherine Montoya, with one count of conspiracy to damage an energy facility, four counts of use of fire in the commission of a felony, and four counts of malicious use of fire, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Montoya was recently arrested in the District of Arizona and detained pending court proceedings to determine her appearance in the Southern District of Iowa. Reznicek appeared in Des Moines on October 1, 2019 and was conditionally released pending trial. Trial...

SEOUL, May 31 (Xinhua) -- A magnitude-4.2 earthquake struck South Korea's southern resort island of Jeju on Saturday, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported. The earthquake erupted at 9:22 p.m. (1222 GMT) and left some residents and buildings in the island shaken, it said. There have been no reports of injuries or property damage in the earthquake so far, Yonhap quoted unnamed weather officials as saying. The quake is believed to have originated in the sea 78 km south of the island, South Korean weather officials said.

‘Kim Jong-il May Make Return Visit to Jeju in Oct.’ By Kim Sue-young Staff Reporter Rep. Rhee Q-taek of the conservative Grand National Party (GNP) said Friday that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il may visit Jeju Island in late October to reciprocate President Roh Moo-hyun's visit to Pyongyang for a summit from Aug. 28-30. Rhee, 65, claimed that the third inter-Korean summit could affect the December presidential election in the South. The government, however, denied the rumor the four-term lawmaker made. ``Rumors have it that Kim would meet with President Roh Moo-hyun in the South's Jeju Island after holding the...

An archaeological site on Jeju Island is being called Korea's version of Pompeii after the ancient Roman city which was preserved by volcanic debris. Discovered in 2006, a human settlement at the Hamori 105 formation in Daejung-eup, Seogwipo-city was confirmed to have been smothered by a volcanic eruption more than 5,000 years ago. The Jeju Culture & Art Foundation collected volcanic materials that covered Hamori and sent it to an American research institute. The Foundation said Sunday that the U.S. researchers determined the debris to have come from an eruption at nearby Songak Mountain over 5,200 years ago. Local scientists...