Official sources indicated that the device is damaged and this might delay its analysis to determine the real causes of the tragedy, which occurred on the morning of December 29, when the aircraft was returning from Thailand and landed at Muan International Airport.

For now, it was learned that after being hit by a bird, the plane had problems releasing the landing gear, crashed into a concrete fence and caught fire.

The accident is already considered the second deadliest in South Korea and one of the three worst landings in the world.

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