A passenger plane has caught fire before takeoff at an airport in South Korea, but all 176 people on board have been safely evacuated

A plane with 176 people on board has caught fire at a South Korean airport. All 169 passengers and seven crew on the Air Busan flight bound for Hong Kong were forced to evacuate down escape slides at Gimhae International Airport after the rear of the Airbus A321 caught fire on Tuesday night before takeoff, authorities said.

South Korea’s authorities investigating last month’s Jeju Air plane crash have submitted a preliminary accident report to the UN aviation agency and to the authorities of the United States, France and Thailand,