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By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean navy plane crashed
during a training flight on Thursday, killing all four crew
members on board, the navy said.
The P-3 patrol plane took off from its base in the southeastern
city of Pohang at 1:43 p.m. and crashed due to unknown reasons,
the navy said in a statement. It said it had identified the
bodies of the four crew members and was in the process of
recovering them.
There were no immediate reports of civilian casualties on the
ground. The navy set up a task force to investigate the crash
and temporarily grounded its P-3s.
An emergency office in Pohang said that rescuers and fire trucks
were dispatched to the site after receiving reports from
residents that an aircraft crashed on a hill near an apartment
complex and caused a fire.
Photos showed firefighters and emergency vehicles near the crash
site with flames flickering as a smoke engulfed trees. Fire
crews sprayed water on what appeared to be the aircraft debris.
In December, a Jeju Air passenger plane crashed at Muan
International Airport in southern South Korea, killing all but
two of the 181 people on board. It was one of the deadliest
disasters in South Korea’s aviation history.
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