Now, why his wingman decided to also deliver payload on the wrong area
I am going to do something I wouldnt otherwise and invoke engrained culture. Korea, from everything I have ever seen, places a ton of emphasis in authority and says you are never allowed to question it no matter how much it makes sense to do otherwise. It is extreme even compared to a lot of other Asian nations.
It is something I have thought a lot about due to comparing two disasters:
When the Costa Concordia sank off the coast of Italy, the crew decided to lie while they fled the sinking ship and left passengers behind. But the mostly Western Passengers said "I dont believe a word you are saying, I can literally feel the boat sinking under me." and started organizing their own evacuation until the crew was forced to actually step in and do a real one themselves. In the end, loss of life was still around 30, but out of the thousands on board that is a pretty small lose of life in the grand scheme of things. This was also helped by a captain in the Italian Coast Guard not believing the captain as he reported the ship was fine, so he overruled the captain and launched his own rescue operation.
When the MV Sewol sank off the coast of South Korea, the crew decided to lie while they fled the sinking ship and left the passengers behind. The mostly Korean Passengers listened to the captain and crew, not leaving their cabins even as the ship started rolling over and capsizing. As a result, over 350 of the 450 on board drowned, and the majority of those rescued were done so by private and non-Korean sources (including an American Marine Assault Ship that happened to be in the area and scrambled SAR helicopters when it picked up the distress traffic from other boats) because the Korean Coast Guard saw no urgency in the situation as the crew had not declared one (the Coast Guard then covered this up after the fact).
So I would imagine there is some of that "Good soldiers follow orders" attitude at play for why he would not question where they were dropping bombs.
Any inclement weather or something that would cause issues, or did someone just get too trigger happy?
According to the reports that C.W. Lemoine saw, the target location was entered into the targeting computer incorrectly.
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Now, why his wingman decided to also deliver payload on the wrong area... ugh...
I am going to do something I wouldnt otherwise and invoke engrained culture. Korea, from everything I have ever seen, places a ton of emphasis in authority and says you are never allowed to question it no matter how much it makes sense to do otherwise. It is extreme even compared to a lot of other Asian nations.
It is something I have thought a lot about due to comparing two disasters:
When the Costa Concordia sank off the coast of Italy, the crew decided to lie while they fled the sinking ship and left passengers behind. But the mostly Western Passengers said "I dont believe a word you are saying, I can literally feel the boat sinking under me." and started organizing their own evacuation until the crew was forced to actually step in and do a real one themselves. In the end, loss of life was still around 30, but out of the thousands on board that is a pretty small lose of life in the grand scheme of things. This was also helped by a captain in the Italian Coast Guard not believing the captain as he reported the ship was fine, so he overruled the captain and launched his own rescue operation.
When the MV Sewol sank off the coast of South Korea, the crew decided to lie while they fled the sinking ship and left the passengers behind. The mostly Korean Passengers listened to the captain and crew, not leaving their cabins even as the ship started rolling over and capsizing. As a result, over 350 of the 450 on board drowned, and the majority of those rescued were done so by private and non-Korean sources (including an American Marine Assault Ship that happened to be in the area and scrambled SAR helicopters when it picked up the distress traffic from other boats) because the Korean Coast Guard saw no urgency in the situation as the crew had not declared one (the Coast Guard then covered this up after the fact).
So I would imagine there is some of that "Good soldiers follow orders" attitude at play for why he would not question where they were dropping bombs.
Yeahhhh... You're not wrong about that. Your point is valid.