Four crew and three passengers are reported to have been hurt trying to escape from a plane that caught fire at Busan in South Korea.
The Airbus 321 was carrying 176 people, who were evacuated when the tail of the Air Busan aircraft burst into flames on Tuesday evening.
The passengers are understood to have sustained injuries when escaping down the inflatable slides at the southeastern airport.
Four crew have been treated for chest pain caused by smoke inhalation.
Air Busan is South Korea’s third largest low-cost airline, having launched in 2008. It is owned by Asiana Airlines, which has merged with Korean Air.
The incident on the Air Busan Hong Kong-bound plane occurred less than a month after South Korea’s worst air disaster, when a Jeju Air plane crash-landed in the southwestern airport Muan, killing 179 people.
While air accident investigators have yet to determine the cause of the Jeju crash, they have revealed that bird feathers have been found in the engines.
