The plane had 176 passengers on board (Image: YONHAP/AFP via Getty Images)
A huge blaze erupted on a passenger flight in South Korea with 169 passengers and seven crew members on board.
The Air Busan plane caught fire before take off at Gimhae International Airport in Busan, , on Tuesday night, sparking a mass evacuation.
Emergency services managed to extinguish the flames after rushing to the scene but footage shared on social media captured the dramatic scenes of fire and smoke pouring out of the aircraft.
The flight A321 had been preparing to travel from Busan in the south-east of the country to .
All 176 people onboard were evacuated, with one person with a minor injury taken to hospital, authorities told Reuters.
Footage shows smoke pouring out of the plane (Image: YONHAP/AFP via Getty Images)
: [REPORT]
They added that the fire had started inside the plane, with the Yonhap news agency suggesting it began in the tail of the aircraft.
Budget airline Air Busan, which launched in the late 2000s, is a subsidiary of South Korea’s Asiana Airlines unit, which was acquired by Korean Air in December.
It comes just a month after South Korea suffered its , when a Jeju passenger plane travelling to Muan International Airport from Bangkok crashed into a runway during an emergency landing.
Don’t miss… [REPORT] [REPORT] [REPORT]
The Boeing 737-800 passenger plane skidded off the airport’s runway on December 29 after its landing gear failed to deploy, slamming into the concrete structure and bursting into flames.
All but two of the 181 people on board were killed and officials are still working to determine the cause of the tragic incident.
All victims on the flight were South Korean except for two Thai nationals.