A passenger aircraft caught fire at Gimhae international airport in the southeastern city of Busan in South Korea, with seven people sustaining injuries while evacuating.The Air Busan plane bound for Hong Kong caught fire at its tail while preparing to take off from Gimhae International Airport in Busan, some 320 kilometers southeast of Seoul, prompting all its 176 passengers and crew members to evacuate, according to South Korea's News Agency (Yonhap).Fire authorities said they had completely extinguished the fire.While the fire started at the tail of the plane, it appeared to have spread to the fuselage of the craft.The cause of the fire was not immediately known. A fire official said the fire apparently started inside the tail end of the plane.Soon after the fire, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport in South Korea set up a team to look into what happened. It plans to send seven officials to the scene to investigate the cause of the fire.According to the ministry's aviation technical information system, the ill-fated Air Busan plane had been in service for over 17 years.
