On January 11th, a fighter jet crashed on a mountain in Hwaseong-si, Gyeonggi-do.
The plane that crashed was carrying Major Sim Jeong-min, a pilot of the Air Force's 10th Fighter Wing.
He is 29 years old.
He was able to make an emergency escape, but he held onto the control stick to the end to avoid the private house, and eventually oxidized with the fighter.
On the 19th of last month, the Air Force explained the results of the final accident investigation to the bereaved family.
The bereaved family personally checked the black box and the contents of the communication.
The Air Force said that two holes about the thickness of a hair were made in the right engine fuel conduit of the F-5, the fighter jet, and the fuel leaked out of the holes caused a fire, making it impossible to control the horizontal tail wing, and the fighter crashed.
Experts point out with one voice that the root cause of this accident was an old fighter after all.
F-5 fighters began to be introduced sequentially in Korea from the mid-1960s.
It is an old model that has been in service for over 50 years.
F-5 pilots are riding older aircraft than they are.
Maj. Shim, who was born in 1993, also had to fly a crash fighter aircraft produced in 1986.
Since 2000, 14 pilots have died in F-5 accidents.
A number of experts say the aging fighter F-5 should be retired as soon as possible.
It is diagnosed that the immediate retirement of the F-5 will not weaken the air force.
This week's Who Story deals with the aging of the F-5 fighter.
(Director/planner Park Byeong-il, interview/appearance Jin Song-min, video coverage Kim Hyun-sang, video editing Kim Cho-a, subtitle composition Ahn Hye-jin, photography assistant Cho Min-hyeok, AD Lim Jeong-dae)