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A passenger plane with 176 people onboard caught fire at Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea, just before takeoff on Tuesday night. Local reports confirmed that all passengers and crew were safely evacuated.

All 169 passengers and seven crew members were evacuated using an inflatable slide. Three people sustained minor injuries, but their conditions were not serious, National Fire Agency reported. Authorities have not yet determined the cause of the fire.

Air Busan Airbus A321, scheduled to fly from Gimhae International Airport in Busan to Hong Kong, caught fire around 10:15 pm local time, according to the transport ministry.

Fire broke out at the tail of the Hong Kong-bound plane just before takeoff, spreading to the fuselage. Firefighters arrived quickly to extinguish the blaze. This incident occurred less than a month after a major air disaster in South Korea, where a Jeju Air plane crash-landed, killing 179 people, with only two survivors.

Dramatic footage shared on social media showed fire and smoke billowing from a damaged aircraft. Korean media reported that the flames appeared to be spreading toward the fuselage, with fire services responding at the scene.

In December, a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 crashed at Muan International Airport in southern South Korea, killing 179 of the 181 people on board. The plane skidded off the runway on December 29 after its landing gear failed to deploy, crashing into a concrete structure and catching fire. The flight, returning from Bangkok, had 179 South Korean passengers and two Thai nationals who also perished in the crash.