SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea will remove concrete embankments near airport runways in response to a recent air disaster, media reports said Thursday. The embankments contain antennas called localizers designed to guide aircraft during landings and have been blamed for making last month’s crash of a Jeju Air plane worse.

The missing data deepens the puzzle of what caused the deadly air disaster in Muan, South Korea, late last month.

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

SEOUL: South Korean authorities said on Wednesday (Jan 22) they will change the concrete barriers used for navigation at some airports across the country after the Jeju Air cra

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

The black boxes of the crashed Jeju Air plane stopped recording flight data four minutes before the aircraft crashed in the worst accident in South Korean aviation history, the Ministry of Transport reported on Saturday.

A total of 179 people were killed in the worst aviation disaster on South Korean soil. Read more at straitstimes.com.

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's transport ministry said on Monday it aims to change the structures of "localizer" antenna used to guide landings at airports this year.

Jeju Air flies its planes more than any other major airline in South Korea, data show. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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 Korea will extend runway safety areas and redesign infrastructure after the crash of a Jeju Air Co flight last month that killed almost everyone on board, sparking criticism that the design of the airport might have exacerbated the accident.