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Cheonggyesan transport aircraft crash

1 Jun 1982 · Mid-slope of Cheonggyesan, Jungang-dong, Gwacheon, Gyeonggi Province (7 km northwest of Seongnam)

Republic of Korea Air Force Fairchild C-123 · Deteriorating weather

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Event

Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
Accident
Event fatalities
53 · all aircraft and ground
Ground fatalities
Unknown
Occupants
Unknown
Survivors
Unknown
InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
Unknown
OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
Military

Fairchild C-123

Aircraft type
Fairchild C-123
Category
Airplane · from aircraft type
RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
Unknown
Onboard fatalities
53
Route
From not recordedTo not recorded

Approximate · Estimated position: Gwacheon, near the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.

From the Wikipedia article

The Cheonggyesan transport aircraft crash (淸溪山輸送機墜落事故) was an accident on 1 June 1982 in which a Republic of Korea Air Force C-123 transport aircraft crashed at a point on the mid-slope of Cheonggyesan, Jungang-dong, Gwacheon, Gyeonggi Province (7 km northwest of Seongnam).

Translated into English with AI assistance from the Korean Wikipedia article “청계산 수송기 추락 사고” (revision 41116541, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article

Sources

Korean Wikipedia article: 청계산 수송기 추락 사고
Article
청계산 수송기 추락 사고
Translation
Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
Revision
41116541 · 2026-01-04 · retrieved 2026-09-19
Wikidata
Q16169721
Licence
Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
Record
ko Wikipedia article "청계산 수송기 추락 사고" (page 530253, revision 41116541), translated into English with AI assistance
Date
Wikipedia infobox: date
Place and country
Wikipedia infobox: site; country from Wikidata (P17)
Map position
place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata coordinates)
Aircraft, operator and route
Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
Operation
operator named as an armed force or military unit in the infobox
Fatalities
Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
Ground fatalities
not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
Summary
Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
  • Wikipedia · Facts from the Korean Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.