A North Korean Air Koryo airplane made an emergency landing in China's city of Shenyang due to a fire, China's official Xinhua news agency said on Friday. An Air Koryo employee reached at the airline's Shanghai office said no company representatives were available and that she was unaware of the situation. The North Korean state-owned airline uses mainly Russian-built Tupolev aircraft on its international flights although older, Soviet-era aircraft are also still used domestically. Independent ratings website Skytrax lists Air Koryo as the world's only 1-star airline for poor quality standards, though it does not measure safety. The plane from North Korea's national airline, which was flying from Pyongyang to Beijing, made a forced landing in the northeastern Chinese city after it caught fire, Xinhua said, citing a passenger.

Source: Thanhnien News July 22, 2016 07:30 UTC