A passenger aircraft caught fire at an international airport in the southeastern city of Busan on Tuesday, with three people sustaining minor injuries while evacuating. Fire authorities said an Air Busan plane bound for Hong Kong from Gimhae International Airport in Busan,
A commercial airplane operated by a low-cost carrier caught fire while preparing for takeoff Tuesday at an international airport in B
A passenger aircraft caught fire at an international airport in the southeastern city of Busan on Tuesday, with three people sustaining minor injuries while evacuating. Fire authorities said an Air Busan plane,
BUSAN, Jan. 28 (Yonhap) -- A passenger aircraft caught fire at an international airport in the southeastern city of Busan on Tuesday, with three people sustaining injuries while evacuating.
A passenger plane has caught fire before takeoff at an airport in South Korea, but all 176 people on board have been safely evacuated
An Air Busan plane caught fire at Gimhae International Airport in Busan in South Korea on Tuesday and all 169 passengers and seven crew members evacuated without casualties, Yonhap news agency reported,
Fire authorities said an Air Busan plane bound for Hong Kong from Gimhae International Airport in Busan, some 320 kilometers southeast of Seoul, caught fire at its tail before its takeoff around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday. They added that all 169 passengers and seven crew members aboard evacuated on an inflatable slide and there were no injuries to report.
Passengers evacuated from an Air Busan plane that was engulfed in flames this week at a South Korean airport will have their checked baggage returned to them, after authorities on Friday deemed the jet safe for a full investigation.
SEOUL - An investigation into a fire that engulfed an Air Busan plane at a South Korean airport this week is being slowed by a large amount of fuel and oxygen still on board, an air crash investigation official told Reuters.
South Korean officials are launching an investigation into the cause of the fire that engulfed an Air Busan passenger plane, with eyewitness accounts suggesting a power bank may have sparked the blaze.
On Tuesday, the Airbus plane operated by budget carrier Air Busan and bound for Hong Kong caught fire at Gimhae International Airport in the country's southern city of Busan before takeoff. All 176 people on board were safely evacuated using an escape slide, though seven suffered minor injuries.