Fire rips through plane with 176 passengers onboard just before take-off in South Korea just weeks after Jeju Air horror

A FIRE ripped through the tail of a South Korean passenger jet today forcing the evacuation of all 176 people on board and injuring three.

An Air Busan plane burst into flames at Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea.

Smoke billowed from the tail as emergency workers surrounded it

@fl360aero / X

The fire broke out in the plane’s tail at around 10:30pm local time[/caption]

Fire engines lined up next to the passenger plane to battle the blaze@fl360aero / X

Emergency services rushed to the location to extinguish the flames.

Dramatic footage posted to social media shows smoke billowing from plane surrounded by a crowd of firefighters.

Other videos show the plane completely engulfed by flames.

The flight had been bound for Hong Kong from Busan, South Korea’s second-largest city.

The inferno comes a month after South Korea’s deadliest air disaster, when a Jeju Air plane coming back from Bangkok crashed on MuanAirport’s runway as it made an emergency belly landing.

All but two of the 181 people and crew members on board were killed in the crash.

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The plane is engulfed by flames on the runway as fire engines soak it with water jets[/caption]

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