Air Busan jet catches fire in Korea

Firefighters extinguish flames from a fire that broke out in the tail section of an Air Busan Airbus A321 preparing to take off for Hong Kong at Gimhae Airport in Busan, South Korea on Tuesday night. (Photo: Yonhap News Agency via Reuters)
Firefighters extinguish flames from a fire that broke out in the tail section of an Air Busan Airbus A321 preparing to take off for Hong Kong at Gimhae Airport in Busan, South Korea on Tuesday night. (Photo: Yonhap News Agency via Reuters)

An Air Busan plane caught fire at Gimhae International Airport in Busan in South Korea on Tuesday and all 169 passengers and seven crew evacuated without casualties, the Yonhap news agency reported.

The flight departing from Gimhae was preparing to take off for Hong Kong at 10.30pm local time when the incident occurred.

The fire started inside the Airbus A321, the Busan fire service said. Yonhap said it began in the plane’s tail.

The 169 passengers and seven flight attendants were evacuated down inflatable slides, Yonhap said. One person was taken to hospital with a minor injury.

The incident came a month after the deadliest air disaster on South Korean soil when a Jeju Air plane from Bangkok crashed at Muan Airport as it made an emergency landing, killing all but two of the 181 people and crew members on board.

The budget carrier Air Busan is part of Asiana Airlines, which in December was acquired by Korean Air.

Airbus said it was aware of reports about the incident and was liaising with Air Busan.

Vocabulary

  • budget carrier (noun): budget airline; an airline that charges very low prices - สายการบินราคาประหยัด
  • casualty (noun): victim; someone/ something that has been harmed, injured or killed as the result of a bad event such as a disaster or crime (casualties: the number of dead or injured) - เหยื่อผู้เคราะห์ร้าย; จำนวนคนตายหรือได้รับบาดเจ็บ
  • disaster: an extremely bad situation - ความโชคร้าย
  • evacuate: to cause to leave a place because it is not safe - เคลื่อนย้ายออกจาก
  • inflatable (adj): able to be filled with air, especially to be able to float in the air or water - ซึ่งทำให้พองได้
  • liaise (verb): to work closely with somebody and exchange information with them; to act as a link between two or more people or groups - ประสานงานระหว่าง, ติดต่อระหว่าง
  • minor: not important; small; having little influence or effect - เล็กน้อย
  • slide: a structure with a steep slope for sliding down - รางเลื่อน
  • soil: land owned by a country - พื้นดิน

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