A plane heading to Lhasa, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, ran off the runway and burst into flames at around 8 a.m. on Thursday morning at Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport in Sichuan Province.
All of the 113 passengers and nine crew were evacuated, the airline said in a post on social media platform Weibo. Some had been sent to hospital with mild injuries, it said.
Flight TV9833 had been about to depart for Nyingchi in Tibet when the fire started. The airline has said the accident is under investigation. The Airbus A319-100 had been in service with the airline for nine and a half years.