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S’Korean Airplane Catches Fire … 176 Passengers evacuate
Report has indicated that the tail of a passenger aircraft caught fire at an international airport in South Korea on Tuesday, forcing the evacuation of 176 people on board,
The Air Busan plane bound for Hong Kong from Gimhae International Airport in southeastern Busan caught fire at around 10:30 pm local time (1330 GMT), the report had indicated.
A total of 169 passengers and seven flight attendants were evacuated down inflatable slides, the report said, but did not give information about the cause of the fire.
It stated that one person was injured during the incident, but gave no further details, except that Busan’s fire authorities were not immediately available for comment when contacted.
South Korea suffered its worst aviation disaster on its soil last month when a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800, flying from Thailand to Muan on December 29, crash-landed and exploded into a fireball after slamming into a concrete barrier.
That crash killed 179 of the 181 passengers and crew members on board.
Flightradar24 lists Air Busan’s fleet as consisting entirely of Airbus aircraft.
Corlins Walter