A passenger plane caught fire before takeoff at an airport in South Korea late Tuesday, but all 176 people on board were safely evacuated, authorities said.

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.

Investigators have released a report that casts further light on the Jeju Air disaster that claimed the lives of 181 people on board, with only two people surviving the crash last month

The first report on last month’s Jeju Air crash in South Korea has confirmed bird strikes in the plane’s engines, though officials haven’t determined the cause of the accident that killed all but two

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A preliminary report has found traces of a bird strike in the engines of the Boeing 737-800 that crashed on 29 December after failing to deploy its landing gear and slamming into a concrete barrier - killing all but two people on board.

South Korea will release by Monday a preliminary report on last month's Jeju Air plane crash that killed 179 people, the deadliest air disaster on the nation's soil, the transport ministry said on Saturday.

The South Korean market might knock the Chinese off the top spot for arrivals in Chiang Mai this year, thanks to an uptick in direct flights and cool winter weather, according to the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT).

South Korea will extend runway safety areas and redesign infrastructure after the crash of a Jeju Air Co flight last month that killed almost everyone on board, sparking criticism that the design of the airport might have exacerbated the accident.

South Korea’s impeached president has denied that he ordered the military to drag lawmakers out of the National Assembly to prevent them from voting to reject his martial law decree last month, as he appeared for the first time before the Constitutional Court that will determine his fate.

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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,