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We can pray, offer comfort to those still with us, and remember those who no longer are. I try to think of what someone who I knew and passed away would want me to do or what I'd want others to do when I finally leave this earth. I'd want them to go on with their life and do the best they possibly could. We can honor their them by remembering them and doing the best we can in life.

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BTW, I don't know whether the ROKAF has announced the serial number or squadron yet?

On second thought, in one of the photos, one of the pilot's jacket has the 121st FS, 20th FW emblem.

http://www.f-16.net/units_airforce162.html
http://www.f-16.net/units_article391.html

F-16C/D Block 52.

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auto translation of Korean article

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KF-16 1 western sea superscription disappearance

[The hankook daily news] 2007 July 21st (Sat) in the morning02:27| mail | print

Nighttime while misconduct task accomplishing
Air force KF_16D fighter 1 price 20th 2 person pilots burn it accomplishes a nighttime misconduct task it disappeared from the west coast skies to 9:00 p.m. The air force puts off with the point where the long time communication is stopped in nighttime and this fighter will fall with the fact that and.

KF_16D where it disappears to today afternoon 8: 26 from the Chung Cheong Nam Do nighttime it was in the process of Interceptor mission accomplishing from the western sea skies to take off from the mountain base.

The air force immediately after disappearing is dispatched 1 structural helicopter 2 coming on time transport plane and 4 patrol gunboats with the western sea coat accident waters urgently and structure and search work it blooms. The air force officials “the existence yes or no of the pilot is not confirmed still and it talked”.

KF_16 emphysema the back 1990 after 4 order accident which falls to the February Chung Cheong Nam Do Bo Lyung offing which passes is born but the pilots succeeded to all escape.

Kim offense possibility journalist bskim@hk.co.kr

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S. Koreans mourn victims of jet crash

Pacific edition, Thursday, July 26, 2007
By Hwang Hae-rym and Teri Weaver, Stars and Stripes

SEOUL — South Korean military officials this week were still investigating what caused a KF-16 jet to crash last week in the ocean, killing two South Korean air force pilots, according to the Ministry of National Defense.

The nighttime crash Friday during a training flight off the country’s western coast killed Lt. Col. Lee Kyu-jin and Capt. Park In-chul, according to the ministry. Lee, 38, and Park, 27, each were promoted one rank posthumously.

Park’s father was Korean Air Force Maj. Park Myeong-rhyeol, who was killed in 1984 in an F-4E during a joint Team Spirit exercise, according to the ministry.

[Lt. Col. and Capt. were their ranks before they were promoted posthumously.]

Source: http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?sec ... icle=47619

BTW,
http://www.f-16.net/inmemoriam_tribute.html
lists no ROKAF pilot?

Gamera wrote:

On second thought, in one of the photos, one of the pilot's jacket has the 121st FS, 20th FW emblem.

Do
http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/s ... ssetid=746
http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/s ... ssetid=746
confirm the KF-16D and/or its pilots are 121st FS, 20th FW?

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confirm the KF-16D and/or its pilots are 121st FS, 20th FW?

Please let the families mourn in peace and let the guys rest in peace …
The healing process now is to find out what happened so we can prevent a future occurrence.

Rest in Peace Mates Salute

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Reported on Ejection History website as 93-4117. Can anyone confirm?

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20070 ... 41-yonh-kr

Article dated 2007.08.10.
From 2007.08.13, ROKAF F-16 resume training fights. ROKAF has about 30 F-16, which have different engine from KF-16.
ROKAF has about 130 KF-16, which continue to be grounded since the KF-16D crash on 2007.07.20.

http://kr.blog.yahoo.com/yunmunmu/4129

Blog article dated 2007.08.16, in Korean.
Apparently a brief list of ROKAF accidents, from 1994.05.20 to 2007.07.20. Involve F-4, F-5, and F-16/KF-16.

(Will someone else decipher the Korean? Or suggest other sites with more comprehensive, detailed, historic lists of ROKAF post-Korean War accidents? Sigh.)

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20070 ... 38-yonh-kr
reported:

Friday, 7 September 2007:
ROKAF announced accident report of KF-16D crash on 20 July 2007.
Cause as pilots' vertigo condition.

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Thank you very much for the follow-up Gamera! I just published an article on it now: <a href="news_article2508.html">South Korean KF-16D crashed due to vertigo</a>

Now how can they tell that it was vertigo?

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Now how can they tell that it was vertigo?

Well, as is the case with some accident investigations, the cause is at best only an educated guess. With most crashes that end up a smoking hole in the ground or a million pieces onthe sea bed evidence is hard to come by. Dont know what the evidence is in this particullar crash but the fact that they claim "Vertigo" as the cause idicates a lack evidence showing otherwise or hard evidence showing vertigo. At the very least hope it gives the families of the crew a bit more closure.

Pete

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