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In Sacheon, Gyeongsangnam-do, two Air Force trainers collided in mid-air.
It was confirmed a while ago that all four pilots on the training plane were innocent.
Connect to the accident scene.
Reporter Seo Yoon-shik, one of them was missing, but was it eventually turned out to be dead?
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Yes, right after the accident, about 150 police officers and search dogs were sent to the scene of the accident to search for it. Unfortunately, it was confirmed that one missing pilot was killed.
The Air Force announced a while ago that four people were killed, including two student pilots, two lieutenants and two flight professors, who were aboard the two KT-1 trainers.
At about 1:40 pm today, two air force trainer KT-1s collided over Jeongdong-myeon, Sacheon-si, Gyeongsangnam-do.
The Air Force believes that two training planes that took off one after another at about 1:30 pm collided about 6 km from the airport.
In the video filmed by local residents at the time of the accident, it was confirmed that black smoke rose from the sky, followed by a scene where a parachute presumed to be the pilot who escaped was spread out.
There is a private house near the accident site, but it is known that there have been no additional civilian casualties except for a part of the roof of the church that was burned.
The Air Force plans to establish a flight accident countermeasure headquarters with the Deputy Chief of Staff as the general manager, and investigate the cause of the accident.
KT-1, the aircraft in which the accident occurred, is the first two-seater domestic basic trainer developed with domestic technology, and is used by fighter pilot candidates to learn basic piloting skills.
It was deployed in August 2000, and in November 2003, an accident occurred due to a pilot’s operation error, and one person died.
So far, at the scene of the training plane crash, this is Seo Yoon-sik from MBC News.
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