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[SweetBear]

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A South Korean plane skidded off the runway after landing in the southern city of Busan on Sunday, injuring six people, officials said.

The incident involving a Jeju Air 74-seat Q400 plane, happened at Gimhae International Airport around 9:37 a.m., forcing the airport's closure for around 25 minutes, said airport official Lee Yong-tae.

The six injured passengers were taken to a nearby hospital, said Um Chul-hwan, another airport official, adding that they appeared to have sustained no serious injuries.

Aviation experts were to fly to Busan to investigate the cause of the accident, according to the Ministry of Construction and Transportation.

Repeated calls to Jeju Air went unanswered.

The budget airline first began commercial service in June 2006, operating five Q400 twin engine turboprop passenger aircraft linking Seoul's Gimpo airport and Busan's Gimhae airport to the southern resort island of Jeju.

[chris_J2]

Great. I fly out on Tuesday with Korean Air!

[safeblad]

korean air is a proper airline with proper planes

you will be fine

[Optimus Prime]

Cool, second accident for Jeju Air. The first was the bellylanding a year ago, now this.

[pest2]

I use Jeju air all the time... They're sketchy, but alot cheaper...

[IlIlNine]

Hey! Those Q400s are certainly proper planes! They're made in Canada at the old de Havilland (great history there!) plant in northern Toronto.

I used to work there!

[pest2]

[Cheonmunka]

Ha ha ha ha. Now that's a damned good point - wherever it just went about people standing in the ailse ready to 'balli balli' deplane.

Kimhae's a long runway. Maybe they approached from the north due to the onshore southerly winds. Approaching from the north is what f*&ked that China Air plane a few years back. There's a mountain at the north end meaning a 2500 feet per minute rapid decent on the short final, so possibility there. Maybe I'm wrong and they had a normal approach from the south and just lost control?

[RACETRAITOR]

My parents and my sister are flying in on Thursday, so I hope they don't see this.

[Tiger Beer]

I'm going to guess it was FOG-related.

Kimhae Airport has that problem often, I circled the airport for 2-3 hours once waiting for the fog to clear to land the plane in that airport once!

[Optimus Prime]

I wonder how many Korean Pilots have fake flying diplomas/degrees.

[Cheonmunka]

Funny thing is AirNZ flies similar ATR twin turbo props on high wing and I have NEVER heard of a runway overrun or it being blown off the runway. Christchurch has really nasty winds coming down off the Southern Alps, and they land on the cross wind runway which is 3000 something feet, unlike Kimhae which is two 10.000 footers.
Qantas flies the Q400 all over Qnland and NSW and same thing, no prob.
What it is with the pilots around here? Too busy?

Always 727 overruns, 747's with the undercarriage digging into the grass ... fortunately KA makes up for the fear with generous passenger miles and a credit card, not to mention making sure their passengers get enough whiskey.

Freaks me out too. Have you seen some of the Asiana waekukin pilots that co-fly to Japan and places? Some of them look like haggard ESL teachers.

[mindmetoo]

[safeblad]

[mithridates]

The funniest thing about this news is that we saw it today in Jeju-do five minutes before the Jeju Air plane to Seoul started boarding. You should have heard the gasps of the people watching the news. Then we got on the plane and didn't die.