THREE passengers were injured when flames ripped through a South Korean commercial plane today, forcing the evacuation of all 176 people on board.
An Air Busan plane burst into flames on the runway at Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea, weeks after the country’s worst ever air disaster.
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The fire broke out in the plane’s tail at around 10:30pm local timeCredit: @fl360aero / X
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Smoke billowed from the tail as emergency workers surrounded it
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Fire engines lined up next to the passenger plane to battle the blazeCredit: @fl360aero / X
Emergency services flooded onto the tarmac to battle the flames with jets of water.
Dramatic footage posted to social media shows smoke billowing from plane as a crowd of firefighters surrounds it.
Other videos show the plane completely by roaring orange flames.
All 169 passengers and seven members of crew fled down the emergency inflatable slides.
Emergency services said the fire started in the plane’s tail at around 10:26pm local time – just moments before take off – and firefighters were on scene by 10:34pm.
It then rapidly spready to the main body of the aircraft.
The Air Busan A321 flight had been bound for Hong Kong from Busan, South Korea’s second-largest city.
Air Busan is a budget branch of Asiana Airlines.
The inferno comes a month after South Korea’s deadliest air disaster, when a Jeju Air plane coming back from Bangkok crashed on MuanAirport’s runway as it made an emergency belly landing.
All but two of the 181 people and crew members on board were killed in the crash.
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The plane is engulfed by flames on the runway as fire engines soak it with water jetsCredit: AFP
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