The Air Busan plane bound for Hong Kong from Gimhae International Airport in southeastern Busan caught fire at around 10:30pm local time (1330 GMT).
The tail of the passenger aircraft caught fire in South Korea’s second-largest city on Tuesday, forcing the evacuation of 176 people on board.
A total of 169 passengers and seven flight attendants were evacuated down inflatable slides, without providing any information about the cause of the fire. Reports has it that one person was injured but no further details has been given as at the time of this report.
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.
Flightradar24 lists Air Busan’s fleet as consisting entirely of Airbus aircraft.
