Home   >   News   >   Korea   >   Asiana jet slides off runway at Hiroshima

Asiana jet slides off runway at Hiroshima

April 14, 2015
An Asiana Airlines plane sits at Hiroshima airport in Mihara, Hiroshima prefecture, western Japan Wednesday, April 15, 2015 after it skidded off a runway Tuesday. About 20 people received minor injuries, officials said. (Muneyuki Tomari/Kyodo News via AP)

An Asiana Airlines plane sits at Hiroshima airport in Mihara, Hiroshima prefecture, western Japan Wednesday, April 15, 2015 after it skidded off a runway Tuesday. About 20 people received minor injuries, officials said. (Muneyuki Tomari/Kyodo News via AP)

By Kim Jae-won

An Asiana Airlines aircraft overran a runway at a Japanese airport Tuesday evening, leaving 23 passengers with minor injuries, according to officials and reports.

Asiana flight 162 slid off the runway at Hiroshima Airport at 8 p.m, about one hour after it departed from Incheon International Airport, an Asiana official said.

Eighty one passengers and crew members were on board the jet, according to Kyodo News. All of the passengers and crews escaped from the aircraft.

Runways at the airport were shut down after 8:20 p.m.

The accident came about two years after an aircraft of the Korean airliner crashed at San Francisco International Airport in July, 2013, killing three Chinese passengers and injuring more than 180 people. Compensation lawsuits filed by the passengers against the airline are pending at U.S. courts.