An Asiana Airlines Airbus A320 aircraft is seen with its evacuation slides deployed after it overran a runway at the Hiroshima airport in Mihara in Hirishima prefecture, western Japan on Wednesday. More than 20 passengers were injured when an Asiana Airlines Airbus A320 overran a runway at the Hiroshima airport on April 14. The South Korean carrier’s Flight OZ162, which took off at Incheon airport, was attempting to land in Hiroshima when the incident occurred. AFP PHOTO
An Asiana Airlines Airbus A320 aircraft is seen with its evacuation slides deployed after it overran a runway at the Hiroshima airport in Mihara in Hirishima prefecture, western Japan on Wednesday. More than 20 passengers were injured when an Asiana Airlines Airbus A320 overran a runway at the Hiroshima airport on April 14. The South Korean carrier’s Flight OZ162, which took off at Incheon airport, was attempting to land in Hiroshima when the incident occurred. AFP PHOTO

TOKYO: An Asiana Airlines plane smashed into a communications antenna as it came in to land at a Japanese airport, footage showed Wednesday, injuring 27 people in an accident with echoes of the Korean airline’s fatal 2013 crash in San Francisco.

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