SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Two Air Force fighter jet pilots were booked Thursday over last week’s accidental bombing of a village after pilot error was found to be the cause of the accident, the defense ministry said. Last Thursday, two KF-16 fighter jets dropped eight MK-82 bombs outside a training range in Pocheon, [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The Air Force reaffirmed pilot error as the main cause of an unprecedented mistaken bombing on a civilian town last week, as it released Monday the interim probe results of the fighter jet accident. Two KF-16 fighter jets “abnormally” dropped eight MK-82 bombs outside a training range in Pocheon, [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The defense ministry said Friday a total of 29 people, including 15 civilians, have been injured from an accidental fighter jet bombing of a northern village earlier this week. On Thursday, two KF-16 fighter jets “abnormally” dropped eight MK-82 bombs outside a training range in Pocheon, some 40 kilometers [...]
SEOUL, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul metropolitan government has released footage of the U.S. Air Force’s bombing of Yongsan in July 1950 during the Korean War, images that have previously been unseen in the country. On July 16, 1950, U.S. Air Force planes dropped bombs on the central Seoul district of Yongsan to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Bereaved families of the victims of a Korean Air jet explosion in 1987 on Thursday urged the South Korean government to launch a full investigation into the case, following reports that a fuselage presumptively linked to the 1987 crash was recently found in the sea off Myanmar. Korean Air [...]