Cockpit voice recordings pulled from South Korean plane’s black box as chilling clue could reveal cause of deadly crash

COCKPIT voice recordings have been retrieved from the black box on the doomed South Korean plane.

All but two of the 181 people on board the Jeju Air jet were killed on Sunday when the plane crashed into a concrete wall after an emergency landing.

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A police forensic team conducts an on-site investigation at the scene of the Jeju Air crash[/caption]

Authorities are now probing what caused the disaster and are examining the black box.

Data from the cockpit voice recorder has been extracted and is being converted into voice files.

The flight recorder, retrieved from the wreckage at Muan International Airport, was damaged and missing a connector that links its data storage unit to the power supply.

Joo Jong-wan, director of the aviation policy division at the ministry, said: “We have determined that extracting data from the damaged flight data recorder here is not possible.

“And so we have agreed with the NTSB to send it to the USand analyze it there.”