Asiana suspends Hiroshima flights for safety check


An Aerial view shows Asiana Airlines plane surrounded by workers and investigators at Hiroshima airport in Mihara, Hiroshima prefecture, western Japan, 15 April 2015. According to media reports, South Korea dispatched an investigative team to western Japan after an Asiana Airline jetliner veered off the runway, injuring 22 people on 14 April 2015. All of the 74 passengers and eight crew members on board the Airbus A320 operated by the South Korean airline left the aircraft by using an escape chute. The wheel of the aircraft may have struck a wireless communication facility near Hiroshima Airport when landing. EPA

The South Korean carrier said the suspension would last until the end of April while it checks “safety measures related to the Hiroshima route, airport facilities, planes and training.”'

Flight OZ162 from Incheon, near Seoul, was carrying 73 passengers and eight crew when it smashed into the localiser -- a large gate-like structure, six metres (20 feet) high, that sits around 300 metres (yards) from the start of the runway.

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