Busan air plane burns fire in South Korea, leaving seven people with injuries at Jimhai Airport

Seoul – The authorities said on Wednesday that seven people were slightly wounded on Tuesday when a plane exploded at an airport in South Korea. Air Busan, Airbus A321, was set to fly to Hong Kong from Gimhae International Airport in southeast Busan, but it caught fire in the rear section on Tuesday night, according to the country’s Ministry of Transport.

She said that a total of 169 passengers and seven hosts and employees were evacuated down.

The authorities initially reported three injuries, but they reviewed the number to seven on Wednesday. The ministry added that one of them remained in the hospital.

South Korea suffered from the worst flight disaster on its soil only last month, when a Jeju 737-800 aircraft, flying from Thailand to Mawan on December 29. The explosion was disrupted and exploded In a fiery ball after criticizing a concrete checkpoint at the end of the runway.

This accident was killed 179 out of 181 travelers and crew members on board. Investigators found the blood of ducks and feathers in both the plane’s engines, but they did not definitely determine the cause of the accident.

“In the wake of the tragedy of the” Jeju Air Passenger plane, an additional flying accident occurred, and we feel very sorry for the passengers on board the plane and the public. “

The ministry said that the accident on Tuesday night left nearly half of the burning fuselage, but the wings and engines of the plane were unacceptable, adding that the cause of the fire was under investigation.

“Whenever we will be able to reveal the results of the investigation on the cause of a fire last night,” the ministry spokesman told AFP.

Dramatic photos from the local media showed on Tuesday night that the plane is mired in fire, with thick smoke escalating from the interior of the plane.

The photos revealed from Wednesday morning that the upper half of the fuselage was burned away, leaving a huge hole.

While the ministry did not comment on a possible cause of the fire, the South Korean Yonhap News Agency reported that the fire began to spread after the spread of black smoke from the upper cabin in the back row.

“The fire appears to have erupted when the passenger battery, stored in the Science Fund, became a compact, compressed luggage,” the local newspaper “Yogong Elebo” reported, citing a person whose name has not been revealed to Busan the air.

“When the smoke filled the cabin, one of the passengers opened near the emergency exit of the door, and the host’s host opened, allowing others to start evacuating,” one of the passengers narrated to Yonhap, describing the “chaos and terrifying accident.”

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