A airplane caught hearth on a runway in South Korea, forcing passengers to make use of the escape slide to evacuate.
The Air Busan airplane was set to go away Gimhae Worldwide Airport for Hong Kong when its rear elements burst into flames, the nation’s transport ministry stated.
The airplane’s 169 passengers, six crew members and one engineer had been evacuated from the plane. Three individuals suffered minor accidents, the Nationwide Fireplace Company stated.
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The aftermath of the hearth at Gimhae Worldwide Airport. Pic: Son Hyung-joo/Yonhap by way of AP
The company stated the blaze was extinguished at 11.31pm native time, about an hour after firefighters had been deployed to the scene.
The reason for the hearth stays unknown, however the transport ministry stated it was an A321 mannequin plane.
The evacuation comes a month after a Jeju Air passenger airplane crashed at Muan Worldwide Airport in southern South Korea, killing all however two of the 181 individuals on board.
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Firefighters work to extinguish the hearth. Pic:Yonhap/AP
The airplane was coming back from Bangkok, Thailand, on 29 December when it didn’t deploy its touchdown gear, skidding off the runway and crashing into concrete limitations earlier than bursting into flames.
It was one of many deadliest disasters in South Korea’s aviation historical past.
A preliminary report into the crash discovered traces of hen strikes had been in each engines of the plane, although officers haven’t decided the reason for the accident.
