South Korea navy plane crash kills three, one survivor

Three crew members were killed and one injured when a South Korean Navy P-3 Orion patrol aircraft crashed near the southeastern city of Pohang on Thursday, military officials and local media said.

The aircraft took off from a naval air base at around 13:43 local time (08:43 Baku time) and crashed minutes later on a nearby hillside, where witnesses reported seeing smoke. Emergency services were dispatched to the crash site.

One survivor was hospitalized. The cause of the crash is under investigation, the defense ministry said.