Two S. Korea fighter jets crash

The jets apparently crashed into a mountain while on a training mission. -AFP

Tue, Mar 02, 2010
AFP

SEOUL - Two South Korean fighter jets apparently crashed into a mountain Tuesday during a routine training flight near their east coast base, military officials said.

The F-5s with a total of three pilots aboard went missing five minutes after leaving base at Gangneung 160 kilometres east of Seoul, the defence ministry said.

"We believe the jets have crashed into a mountain west of the base," an air force spokesman told AFP, adding the fate of the pilots was not known.

The ministry said it would disclose details after a rescue team found the wreckage.

The apparent crash would be the second such case in less than two years after two F-5Es crashed northeast of Seoul in November 2008.

The age of the South Korean jets was not known. The F-5 first went into service in the United States in the 1960s.


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