Separate the December crash from later discoveries about flight recorders and the preliminary report. Evidence recovered during an investigation is not the same as a final finding of cause.
December 29, 2024-January 27, 2025. Later investigation findings are outside this early-evidence timeline.
Dates without a time use the local date of the event.
South Korean transport authorities
South Korean authorities said the flight and cockpit recorders stopped recording about four minutes before the crash.
A missing recording interval limits available evidence; it does not explain why the accident happened.
Investigators released a preliminary report describing recorder gaps and evidence recovered from the aircraft.
Preliminary reporting records the evidence then available. It is not a final accident-cause determination.
December 29, 2024-January 27, 2025. Later investigation findings are outside this early-evidence timeline.