Overview

• Crash occurred at 1:49 p.m. on May 29 during touch-and-go training, six minutes after takeoff from Pohang air base, with no prior emergency calls.
• Surveillance cameras captured the aircraft abruptly nosediving into a mountainside without warning.
• All four crew members—two commissioned officers and two non-commissioned officers—were killed, and a funeral procession began with burial set for Sunday at Daejeon National Cemetery.
• The Navy has launched a special investigative unit to examine track data, cockpit voice recordings and wreckage for possible mechanical or flight-control failures.
• South Korea’s fleet of 16 P-3 maritime patrol aircraft has been grounded until safety inspections and the probe are complete.