Chopper crashes in Yangyang First responders search for survivors after a helicopter crashed into a hill near a Buddhist temple in the eastern coastal county of Yangyang on Nov. 27, 2022. Five people were found dead and identification was under way. (Yonhap)
Rescue workers found three bodies believed to be among the seven missing people aboard a crashed chopper near the Dokdo islets in the East Sea on Saturday.
A helicopter belonging to the fire agency crashed Thursday night, a few minutes after it took off from Dokdo, with seven people on board, including an injured person from a fishing boat.
Rescue workers found three bodies and retrieved one of them as part of an underwater mission by a submarine rescue ship of South Korea’s Navy.
Salvaging chopperWork to pull out a crashed helicopter belonging to a regional fire headquarters takes place at Hapcheon Dam in Hapcheon, 354 km southeast of Seoul, on Feb. 28, 2019. The accident took place the previous day. (Yonhap)
Condolences to the families and friends affected by this tragic helicopter crash:
This photo provided by the Marine Corps on July 17, 2018, shows the MUH-1 helicopter, the Marine version of the KUH-1 Surion. Dubbed Marineon, one MUH-1 chopper crashed at a military airport in Pohang, about 370 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on July 17, 2018. (Yonhap)
A Marine Corps helicopter crashed at a military airport in the southeastern city of Pohang on Tuesday, killing five of the six Marines aboard and injuring the other, officials said.
The helicopter was on a test flight in Pohang, some 370 kilometers southeast of Seoul, after repair when it went down from a height of about 10 meters around 4:46 p.m. and caught fire, Marine Corps officials said. [Yonhap]
This photo taken on May 8, 2017, shows a fire-fighting helicopter that made an emergency landing in Samcheok, 290 kilometers east of Seoul, on the day. A maintenance worker who was on board the helicopter fell unconscious and later died after being taken to a nearby hospital. (Yonhap)
