A passenger aircraft caught fire at Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea, on Tuesday, prompting the evacuation of 176 individuals. The Air Busan flight was en-route to Hong Kong when the fire broke out around 10:30 pm local time, according to Yonhap news agency.
169 passengers and seven flight attendants were evacuated safely with the help of inflatable slides. No specific cause for the fire has been reported in the incident. A person was injured, but the details of that are not available.
This is a fire incident that happens only weeks after the South Korea’s worst airline disaster in recent history, when a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 crashed and exploded last December 29, killing 179 people.
According to Flightradar24, Air Busan has only aircraft from Airbus as its fleet.
