The nation’s transport ministry reviewed structures near airport runways after the deadly crash of a Jeju Air flight late last month.

After overcoming pariah status at the end of the last century, South Korea must learn what caused the catastrophe on Dec. 29 and what lessons to draw from it.

A former transport ministry accident investigator said the discovery suggests all power, including backup, may have been cut, which is rare.

A Jeju Air jet in South Korea crashed last month due to bird strikes, leading to 179 fatalities. Investigators found bird feathers and blood in its engines. The crash occurred after overshooting the runway,

The two flight recorders on board a South Korean airliner stopped working before the jet crashed during an emergency landing and subsequent crash that killed 179 of the 181 people on board, officials said Saturday.

Investigators have confirmed the presence of bird feathers and blood in both engines of the Jeju Air jet that crashed last month in South Korea, killing 179 people, according to a source familiar with the ongoing probe.

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 minutes before the disaster, South Korea's transport ministry said Saturday.

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.

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. South Korean investigators previously said the flight data and cockpit voice recorders were key to finding out the cause of last month's crash that killed 179 people.

South Korean investigators found feathers in both engines of the Boeing Co. 737-800 jet involved in a crash late last month.

Investigators found bird feathers and blood in both engines of the Jeju Air jet that crashed in South Korea last month, killing 179 people, a person familiar with the probe told Reuters on Friday.