300 passengers evacuated from Korean Air plane at Tokyo airport

May 27, 2016

Korean Air Boeing 777 at Tokyo's Haneda airport in dramatic scenes after one of the engines caught fire

About 300 passengers and crew members were evacuated from a Korean Air Boeing 777 at Tokyo's Haneda airport in dramatic scenes after one of the engines caught fire, officials said Friday.

TV footage from the airport showed the plane, which was bound for South Korea's Gimpo International, surrounded by red fire trucks and with the area around its left wing doused in foam. The plane's inflatable emergency evacuation slides had all been deployed.

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