Nine ROK Military Officers to Face Charges for Accidental Bombing Strike
A lot of military careers are being ended due to the pilots who committed the error of mistakenly bombing a Korean village back in March:
Two Air Force unit commanders have been booked in relation to an unprecedented mistaken bombing on a civilian town last month, officials said Monday, as the ministry released the interim probe results of the fighter jet accident.
On March 6, two KF-16 fighter jets dropped eight MK-82 bombs outside a training range in Pocheon, some 40 kilometers north of Seoul, during live-fire drills, injuring 52 people, including 38 civilians, according to an estimate by city authorities.
The two pilots, who are alleged to have erroneously entered the target coordinates prior to the live-fire drills, have been booked over charges of professional negligence resulting in injury and damaging military facilities. The pilots have also been suspended from air duty for one year.
“The ministry plans to refer the two pilots and the unit commanders who have been booked to the military prosecution after the probe concludes and seek disciplinary action against nine officials who were found to have belatedly reported the case and taken insufficient measures,” the ministry’s criminal investigation command said in a release.
The nine officials include seven from the Air Force and two from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, it added.
The ministry also plans to issue a warning against the Air Force’s operations commander, holding him accountable for command responsibility and insufficient reporting.
You can read more at the link, but it is interesting that personnel all the way up in the Joint Chiefs of Staff is facing charges. How could they have prevented this pilot error from happening?
Pretty sad way of doing things.
Well, someone has to take responsibility for this. What do you suggest they do?
“Well, someone has to take responsibility for this.”
That comes off as an extremely arbitrary attitude. Prosecution should be based on actual culpability, not some vague sense of guilt by association.
They will be booked and disciplined, only. They will get due process, so relax.
It’s not like what the US is doing, arresting people arbitrarily because of their race or beliefs, then getting absolutely no due process, and then being shipped off to El Salvador concentration camps to rot until they die being tortured. Talk about “arbitrary attitude”… jesus.