There was pandemonium on Tuesday as the tail of a passenger aircraft caught fire at an international airport in South Korea, forcing the evacuation of no fewer than 176 people on board.
It was gathered that the Air Busan plane bound for Hong Kong from Gimhae International Airport in southeastern Busan caught fire at around 10:30 pm local time, 1330 GMT.
At least 169 passengers and seven flight attendants were evacuated down inflatable slides with one person injured.
At the time of filing this report, the cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained as Busan’s fire authorities were yet to make any comment.
Media Talk Africa recalls that South Korea suffered its worst aviation disaster on its soil last month when a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800, flying from Thailand to Muan on December 29, crash-landed and exploded into a fireball after slamming into a concrete barrier.
That crash killed 179 of the 181 passengers and crew members on board.
