SEOUL, South Korea (AP) Two South Korean air force planes collided in mid-air during training and crashed near their base on Friday, killing all four people aboard the aircraft, officials said. Both planes were KT-1 trainer aircraft South Korea’s first indigenously developed planes that took off from an air force base in the southeastern city of Sacheon one after another for flight training, the air force said in a statement.
The collision of Korean planes occurred about five minutes after the first aircraft took off and about 6 km (3.7 miles) south of the Sacheon base, the air force said. Two people, a trainer pilot and an instructor, were aboard each of the two KT-1 aircraft.