China News Agency, Seoul, April 1 (Liu Xu and Liu Jingni) According to the local time of the South Korean Air Force on April 1, two KT-1 trainers of the South Korean Air Force had an accident over Sacheon City, South Gyeongsang Province that afternoon. The crash killed all four people on board the two planes, including two student pilots and two coaches.
Yonhap News Agency quoted local fire department sources as saying that the cause of the accident was presumed to be the collision of two trainer planes in flight.
The Korean Air Force said that although the two planes had activated the emergency escape function, no one was found alive after a search.
According to the Blue House, South Korean President Moon Jae-in expressed his condolences on the 1st to the four officers and soldiers who died in the collision of the Air Force trainer plane, and may they sleep forever in the sky of the motherland.
Moon Jae-in also extended his deep condolences to the families of the victims.
It is reported that the KT-1 trainer aircraft is South Korea's first self-developed and designed trainer aircraft. It has been deployed in actual combat since August 2000, and is mainly used for fighter alternate pilots to be proficient in basic driving skills.
According to South Korean media reports, in January this year, the South Korean Air Force also had an accident in which a plane crashed and killed a pilot.
In order to prevent such accidents from happening again, the relevant departments of the Korean Air Force said that they will set up a countermeasures headquarters and conduct a detailed investigation of the cause of the Sacheon accident.
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