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Kathmandu. A passenger plane caught fire before takeoff at a South Korean airport on Tuesday night. All 176 people on board were safely evacuated, officials said.
The Airbus plane, operated by South Korean airline Air Busan, was preparing to depart for Hong Kong when a fire broke out in the rear of the plane at Gimhae International Airport in the southeast, the Ministry of Transport said in a statement.
The plane’s 169 passengers, six crew members and one engineer were evacuated using escape slides, the ministry said. Three people were slightly injured during the rescue, the national fire service said in a statement. The fire department said the fire was fully under control at 11:31 p.m. local time, an hour after firefighters and firefighters were dispatched to the scene.
The cause of the fire was not immediately known. The Ministry of Transport said the plane was an A321 model. Tuesday’s incident comes a month after a Jeju Air passenger plane crashed at Muan International Airport in southern South Korea.
The Jeju Air plane crash killed all but two of the 181 people on board. It was one of the deadliest accidents in South Korean aviation history. The Boeing 737-800 skidded off the runway on December 29 after its landing gear failed to deploy, crashing into a concrete structure and bursting into flames.
The flight was returning from Bangkok, and all but two Thai nationals on board were South Korean. In a preliminary report into the crash released on Monday, authorities confirmed they had found evidence of bird strikes on the plane’s engines. However, authorities have not yet determined the cause of the crash.
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