 "Passenger aircraft catches fire at South Korea’s Busan airport, 176 people evacuated safely")
The tail of a passenger aircraft caught fire at an international airport in South Korea’s second-largest city on Tuesday, leading to the evacuation of 176 individuals on board, according to Yonhap news agency.
The Air Busan flight, which was en route to Hong Kong from Gimhae International Airport in southeastern Busan, caught fire around 10:30 pm local time, added the report.
169 passengers and seven flight attendants were evacuated using inflatable slides, but did not disclose any details about the cause of the fire, reported Yonhap.
The agency said that one person sustained injuries but provided no further information.
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.
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