A passenger airplane has caught fireplace earlier than take-off at an airport in South Korea, with all 176 individuals on board safely evacuated.
The Airbus airplane operated by South Korean airline Air Busan was making ready to go away for Hong Kong late on Tuesday (Wednesday AEDT) when its rear elements caught fireplace at Gimhae Worldwide Airport within the southeast, the Transport Ministry mentioned.
The entire airplane’s 169 passengers, six crew members and one engineer have been evacuated utilizing an escape slide, the ministry assertion mentioned.
The Nationwide Hearth Company mentioned in a launch that three individuals suffered minor accidents throughout the evacuation.
The hearth company mentioned the hearth was utterly put out at 11.31pm, about one hour after it deployed firefighters and fireplace vans on the scene.
The reason for the hearth wasn’t instantly recognized. The Transport Ministry mentioned the airplane is an A321 mannequin.
The incident got here 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.
It was one of many deadliest disasters in South Korea’s aviation historical past.
The Boeing 737-800 skidded off the airport’s runaway on December 29 after its touchdown gear didn’t deploy, slamming right into a concrete construction and bursting into flames.
The flight was coming back from Bangkok and the entire victims have been South Koreans besides for 2 Thai nationals.
The primary report on the crash launched on Monday mentioned authorities have confirmed traces of fowl strikes within the airplane’s engines, although officers have not decided the reason for the accident.
