A large fire broke out on a Air Busan A321 (registration HL7763) traveling to Hong Kong at the Gimhae international airport in South Korea.

The plane, bound for Hong Kong, carried 176 people: 169 passengers and 7 crew members. All managed to escape via emergency exits.

The fire was reported at 10:26 p.m. in the plane’s back upper section. The airport’s firefighting team arrived at 10:34 p.m. to begin extinguishing.

A Level 1 emergency response was declared at 10:38 p.m., leading to the mobilization of additional firefighting resources.

Three people have been injured.

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