The incident occurred at Gimhae International Airport in South Korea on Jan. 28, according to reports
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Seven people have been injured after a passenger plane caught fire on the runway in South Korea, prompting a mass evacuation.
The Air Busan plane caught fire at Gimhae International Airport on Tuesday, Jan. 28 and all 169 passengers and seven crew members were evacuated, according to CNN, citing fire authorities in Busan.
The plane was preparing to depart for Hong Kong at the time of the incident, planemaker Airbus told PEOPLE in a statement.
According to local news agency Yonhap, the number of those injured in the incident was initially reported as three, but this rose to seven on Wednesday, fire authorities said. The victims all suffered minor injuries, the news agency reported.
The fire began in the plane’s tail just before 10:30 p.m. local time, per the news agency, before appearing to spread to the fuselage of the plane.
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In a video of the incident shared by U.K. newspaper The Guardian, passengers can be seen using inflatable evacuation slides to exit the plane and running from the aircraft, while later footage showed flames billowing from the plane and fire crews working to put out the blaze.
A photo shared by Yonhap later showed large burned-out holes along the roof of the aircraft.
According to Airbus, the plane was manufactured in November 2007 and has been operated by Air Busan since June 2017.
Air Busan did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
In a statement obtained by PEOPLE, Airbus said, “In line with the Annex 13 to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) convention, Airbus will provide full assistance to the Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses of France (BEA) and to the South Korea Authorities (ARAIB) in charge of the investigation. For this purpose, Airbus is presently dispatching a team of specialists to assist the Safety Investigation Authorities.”
“Further updates will be provided as soon as consolidated information is available and Airbus is authorised to release them,” they added.
