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Hans India
08-05-2025
- General
- Hans India
Bhupalapally: Rest rooms for women employees inaugurated
Bhupalapally: Special rest rooms exclusively arranged for the female employees at KT-5 Incline were inaugurated on Wednesday. Currently, KT-5 Incline has a total of 35 female employees, comprising 7 administrative officers, 6 super supervisors, 7 technicians, and 13 general laborers/budli workers. Area General Manager Enugu Rajeshwar Reddy stated that a plan has been formulated for managing the underground mines of the Singareni company at KT-5 Incline in the first shift for district SS-15, emphasizing increased participation by female workers. In view of enhancing their involvement, special women's rest rooms have been arranged. He further highlighted that by prioritiSing the welfare and convenience of female employees, these rooms will help make their working lives more comfortable and secure. In addition, the program was attended by SO to GM Mr. S. Kaveendra, KT-1 Group Agent Mr. J. Venkataramana, Personal Manager K. Maruthi, Gan Manager Mr. Zakeer Hussain, along with other officials, Recognition Sangha PIT Secretary Mr. Dornala Tirupati, and Representative Sangha PIT Secretary Mr. Chunchula Gattu Raju.
Korea Herald
21-04-2025
- General
- Korea Herald
Pilot mistook jettison button for heating in KA-1 incident: Air Force
A South Korean Air Force pilot mistakenly pressed the emergency jettison button while attempting to adjust the heating in a KA-1 light attack aircraft that accidentally dropped its weapons and fuel tanks last week, authorities said Monday. The Air Force said the pilot was attempting to adjust an air vent that was disrupting his vision when the incident occurred at 8:22 p.m. on Friday over Pyeongchang, Gangwon Province, during a nighttime mock firing exercise. The vent and emergency jettison button, which measure 3.5 centimeters and 3.3 centimeters in diameter, respectively, are located close to each other, contributing to the confusion, authorities said. 'The pilot, who was wearing night vision goggles, reported that strong wind was blowing into his helmet through the ventilation system. While trying to adjust the heater controls near the air vent, he mistakenly pressed the emergency jettison button,' Lt. Col. Jang Dong-ha, spokesperson for the Air Force, said during a press briefing in Seoul. As of Monday, the military had recovered both gun pods, the fuel tanks and 495 rounds of ammunition. Five rounds remained missing. The KA-1, a light attack variant of the KT-1 trainer aircraft, carries two pilots. The jettisoned gun pods, which house machine guns, also contained 500 rounds of 12.7 mm live ammunition. The dropped fuel tanks were empty. The aircraft returned safely to Wonju Air Base after reporting the incident to air traffic control. No emergency procedures were required. In response, the Air Force deployed a helicopter and about 270 personnel to the mountainous area where the equipment was dropped in Yeongwol, Gangwon Province. The Air Force confirmed that the equipment landed in uninhabited mountainous terrain and caused no civilian injuries or property damage. It added that it plans to conduct a comprehensive review of all related systems, including personnel, organizational structure and flight procedures. Training flights, which were suspended following the accident, are scheduled to resume Tuesday. These include the Freedom Flag exercise, a South Korea–US joint air drill that began Thursday and runs through May 2. Friday's incident comes after another one on March 3, when a misfire from a KF-16 fighter jet injured more than 30 people and damaged around 140 homes. That incident was also credited to pilot error, via inputting incorrect targeting coordinates.
Korea Herald
24-03-2025
- Business
- Korea Herald
S. Korea, Indonesia reaffirm cooperation for joint fighter jet project
South Korean and Indonesian defense officials have reaffirmed their cooperation for a joint project to develop the KF-21 fighter jet, the South's arms procurement agency said Monday. Seok Jong-gun, minister of the Defense Acquisition Program Administration, and Donny Ermawan Taufanto, Indonesia's deputy minister of defense, discussed the joint development project, as well as other arms cooperation agenda items, during their meeting in Jakarta on Friday, DAPA said. South Korea's defense authorities approved a plan last year to reduce Indonesia's contribution to the project to build the advanced supersonic fighter by 2026 to 600 billion won ($409 million) from the original amount of 1.6 trillion won, following Jakarta's repeated payment delays. Indonesia initially agreed to pay about 20 percent of the 8.1 trillion-won program launched in 2015 in return for technology transfers and one prototype model, among other conditions. The project had also been hampered by technology leak allegations involving a team of Indonesian engineers dispatched to South Korea. "As the first high-level meeting that took place after the probe into Indonesian engineers, the talks served as an occasion for normalizing bilateral arms cooperation that had slightly been strained," Seok said, vowing to use it as "momentum" to expand cooperation with the Southeast Asian nation. Taufanto was quoted as highlighting the competitiveness of South Korean arms equipment, such as the KT-1 and T-50 aircraft, and stressed the country is "faithfully" carrying out contracts and maintaining cooperative ties in various areas, according to DAPA. (Yonhap)
