A passenger plane burned down at South Korea's Busan airport

At the international airport of the South Korean city of Busan a passenger airplane of Air Busan airline completely burned down. This was reported by Yonhap agency on January 28.

The fire occurred in the tail of the plane before the flight to Hong Kong at about 22:26 local time (16:26 Moscow time).

All 169 passengers and seven crew members were evacuated. Three people were injured.

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A fire started at the scene and there are survivors

Earlier, on December 29, 2024, a Jeju Air plane crashed while landing at South Korea's Muang Airport. Authorities conducted an investigation at the scene to determine the exact cause of the crash. According to the airport authority, the plane crashed on landing on the fuselage due to a landing gear failure before it could shed speed. There were 181 people on board the airliner: 175 passengers (173 South Korean nationals, two from Thailand) and six crew members, two of whom survived. The bodies of all 179 dead have been recovered.

In connection with the crash in the country declared seven days of national mourning.

It was noted that the main causes of the plane crash could be both the collision of the airliner with a flock of birds and the insufficient length of the runway (GDP) for an emergency landing. Later, on January 17, 2025, MBN reported that bird feathers were found in the engines of the crashed Jeju Air plane.