SEOUL, Jan 1, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Investigators probing a Jeju Air crash which killed 179 in South Korea's worst aviation disaster on home soil have extracted the initial data from one of the Boeing 737-800's black boxes, an official said Wednesday.

For the cockpit voice recorder, "the initial extraction has already been completed," said deputy minister for civil aviation Joo Jong-wan, adding that experts were still reviewing how to extract the data from the second black box, the flight data recorder.