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Two air force trainers crashed in the air in Sacheon, Gyeongnam during the daytime today (1st).
All four pilots were killed in the accident, and debris fell in a nearby village.
This is KNN regular reporter.
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It is a mountain in Sacheon, Gyeongnam.
Broken pieces of iron fall.
It emits black smoke with the explosion.
At the same time, black smoke rises in the sky.
Two parachutes descend.
Two air force basic trainer KT-1s collided in mid-air.
[Nearby residents: I heard a 'bang' and it was strange, so when I came out, I thought there was a fire because there was a lot of smoke and the smoke smelled of soot and burned.] The
accident happened around 1:30 pm today, over Hwaam-ri, Jeongdong-myeon, Sacheon-si, Gyeongsangnam-do. .
It is about 6 km south of the airport.
The pilots all appear to have made an emergency escape immediately after the crash.
[Kim Taek-yong / Head of the Prevention and Safety Division of the Sacheon Fire Station: The military, firefighting, police, city hall, etc. have decided each area through a situation judgment meeting and are currently conducting a search.]
However, all four people were eventually found dead.
There are two flight professors and two lieutenant flight instructors.
Debris from the crashed plane fell all around 3-4 km.
An aircraft engine hit a parked car, and a shattered fuselage was found in a field.
The broken airplane fuselage also fell on the roof of a nearby church.
One side of the wing is completely burnt and broken.
There are no known casualties in the vicinity.
This is the first time KT-1s have collided with each other in the air.
The Air Force set up an accident countermeasure headquarters and started investigating the exact status of damage and the cause of the accident.
(Video coverage: Ahn Myeong-hwan KNN, Jung Chang-wook KNN, video provided by viewers: Kim Do-won, Park Seong-jun, Yoon Ha-young)