Two S. Korean pilots killed in jet trainer crash

Email|Print|Comments       twitter     facebook     Sina Microblog     reddit    

SEOUL, Aug. 28 -- A South Korean jet trainer crashed on Wednesday in the country's southwestern city of Gwangju, killing two pilots aboard, Yonhap News Agency reported.

The T-50 jet trainer crashed and burned as of 2:08 p.m. local time at farmlands near the South Korean Air Forces base in Gwangju, around 330 kilometers south of Seoul, the country's capital.

The incident killed the two pilots, including a major and a captain, who had been conducting a flight training mission.

This is the first time that the T-50 crashed. The model is an advanced South Korean trainer and light attack aircraft jointly developed by Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI), South Korean aerospace company, and the U.S.-based Lockheed Martin for eight years through 2005 with around 2 trillion won (1.8 billion U.S. dollars) invested.

A fact-finding team was formed to investigate into the cause of the incident.

• Young pilots take to the air amid shortage
• Chinese company to build pilot training centre in Singapore
• Military academies, universities to jointly train pilots
• Philippine military plane with 2 pilots missing
• China pilot program to better protect minors
• Fly into sky: A day of an airline captain
• PLA's first pilot project of joint campaign training evaluation launched
• Chinese air force to reduce pilot training costs
• 'Lovers above the Sky' fails to take off
• Training center for helicopter pilots opens

We Recommend

• August Full Moon celebrated across Greece
• Top 10 Chinese provinces for the well-heeled
• Fan Bingbing poses for Malaysian magazine Citta Bella
• Preview of Moscow air show
• Wild dream: Hell-like training for bodyguard
• Zhang Xinyi covers COSMOPOLITAN
• China’s weekly story
  (2013.8.3-8.9)
  
• The story of a savior sibling
  
• A collection of bizarre rooftop buildings around China