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According to the National Firefighters Agency, three people were slightly injured during evacuation by inflatable slides, but the fire was completely extinguished
Firefighters work to extinguish a fire that exploded in a Busan passenger plane to Hong Kong, at Gimhae International Airport in Busan on January 28. (Image: Yonhap/AFP)
The rear section of a passenger plane caught fire at a South Korean airport on Tuesday, forcing the evacuation of 176 people on board. Air Busan plane, an Airbus A321, would fly to Hong Kong from Gimhae International Airport in southeast Busan but caught fire, authorities said.
According to the National Fire Department, three people were slightly injured during evacuation, but the fire was completely extinguished. In a statement, the Ministry of Transportation said that 169 passengers and seven crew members were evacuated by inflatable slides.
However, the statement did not mention the cause of the fire that is not saying that it exploded in the back of the aircraft.
The fire explodes in an Air Busan A321 for Hong Kong at the Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea. At 10:30 pm on Tuesday, a fire broke out in the aircraft’s tail section.
The 170 passengers and the crew evacuated, and there were no victims … pic.twitter.com/gqzikrux85
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South Korea suffered the worst aviation disaster in his land last month when a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800, flying from Thailand to Muan on December 29, landed and exploded in a fireball after hitting a concrete barrier . That accident killed 179 of the 181 passengers and crew members on board.
(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a FEED – AFP union news agency)
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Seoul, South Korea