ROK Maritime Patrol Aircraft Crashes Outside Pohang Killing Four
A tragic accident appears to have happened to cause this ROK Navy P9 aircraft to crash:
All four Navy officers aboard a maritime patrol aircraft were killed after the plane crashed on a mountain in the southeastern city of Pohang on Thursday, the Navy said.
The crash occurred at around 1:49 p.m., and witnesses reported smoke rising from the mountain with sounds of explosions.
“A P-3 maritime patrol aircraft that took off at 1:43 p.m. for landing and takeoff training from an air base in Pohang crashed at a nearby location at around 1:49 p.m., due to an unspecified reason,” the Navy said.
Four people were on board — two commissioned officers and two non-commissioned officers.
The Navy said it recovered the dead bodies of all four officers. The officers’ identities have yet to be confirmed.
The aircraft was usually based at a Navy unit on the southern island of Jeju, but had flown to Pohang for training, a Navy official said.
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