South Korean navy patrol plane crashes in country’s south

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Seoul, May 29: A South Korean navy plane with four crew members crashed during a training flight on Thursday and it was not immediately known if they survived, the navy said.

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The P-3C patrol plane took off from its base in the southeastern city of Pohang at 1:43 pm but fell to the ground due to unknown reasons, the navy said in a statement.

The navy is working to determine the status of the four people aboard the plane and why it crashed, the statement said. There have been no reports of civilian casualties on the ground, it said.

Pohang’s Nambu police station also confirmed the crash involved a navy patrol aircraft and it couldn’t immediately confirm whether there were any deaths or injuries.

An emergency office in Pohang said that rescue workers and fire trucks were dispatched to the site after receiving reports from local residents that an unidentified aircraft fell onto a hill near an apartment complex and caused a fire.

The scale and damage of the fire wasn’t immediately known. Yonhap news agency published photos showing firefighters and at least one water truck operating near the crash site, with flames flickering as black-gray smoke engulfed the trees.

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In December, a Jeju Air passenger plane crashed at Muan International Airport in southern South Korea, killing all but two of the 181 people on board. It was one of the deadliest disasters in South Korea’s aviation history. (AP)

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