South Korean navy patrol plane crashes in country's south

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A South Korean navy patrol level has crashed successful the country’s south

SEOUL, South Korea -- A South Korean navy level carrying 4 radical crashed during a grooming formation connected Thursday and it was not instantly known if determination were casualties, the navy said.

The patrol level near its basal successful the southeastern metropolis of Pohang astatine 1:43 p.m. but fell to the crushed owed to chartless reasons, the navy said successful a statement.

The navy is moving to find the presumption of the 4 radical aboard the level and wherefore it crashed, the connection said.

An exigency bureau successful Pohang said that rescue workers and occurrence trucks were dispatched to the tract aft receiving reports from section residents that an unidentified craft fell and determination was an explosion.

Pohang’s Nambu constabulary presumption besides said the clang progressive a navy patrol craft and it couldn’t instantly corroborate whether determination were immoderate deaths oregon injuries.

Yonhap quality bureau reported that occurrence workers were trying to extinguish a fire. Yonhap published a photograph showing fume billowing from the hills adjacent a mill country successful Pohang.

In December, a Jeju Air rider level crashed astatine Muan International Airport successful confederate South Korea, sidesplitting all but 2 of the 181 radical connected board. It was 1 of the deadliest disasters successful South Korea’s aviation history.