An unmanned U.S. spy plane crashed north of the capital of South Korea as it tried to make an emergency landing during a training flight, a spokeswoman at the 8th U.S. Army said on Friday.
The Shadow 200 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle crashed near Tongduchon, 28 miles northeast of Seoul, around 9:05 p.m. GMT on Thursday, Ha Haeng-Cha, public information officer of the U.S. Army in Seoul, told Reuters by telephone.
Tongduchon is the base of the 2nd Infantry Division, a component of the 37,000 U.S. troops in South Korea which protects a major flank of South Korea's border with North Korea along a key corridor the North used to launch the Korean War in 1950.
There was no report of injuries on the ground and the cause of the incident was being investigated, she added.
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An unmanned U.S. spy plane crashed north of the capital of South Korea as it tried to make an emergency landing during a training flight, a spokeswoman at the 8th U.S. Army said on October 17, 2003. (DOD/Reuters)