Passenger plane catches fire at South Korean airport. All 176 on board evacuated
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SEOUL, South Korea -- The tail of a passenger plane with 176 people on board caught fire before takeoff at an airport in South Korea Tuesday night, news reports said. All passnagers and crew weer safely evacuated.
The Air Busan plane at Gimhae International Airport in the southeastern city of Busan was bound for Hong Kong, Yonhap news agency reported. The 169 passengers and seven crew members were evacuated using an inflatable slide, the report said, adding that three people were injured but their condition wasn’t serious.
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Isn't that the wrong use of evacuated? The plane was evacuated not the people otherwise that'd be pretty messy? English pedants rise up and confirm.
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/evacuate#Verb
To cause (or help) to leave or withdraw from.
“The firefighters decided to evacuate all the inhabitants from the street.”
Hence: “Passenger plane catches fire at South Korean airport. All 176 on board evacuated” → “[A] passenger plane catches fire at a South Korean airport. All 176 people on board [were] evacuated [from the plane]. ”
Note that in the linked Wiktionary entry, there is an attested usage from 1943. It isn't exactly youth slang. It is, however, the sense with the most recent attested usage among all of those listed.
I suspect it is correct.
I also suspect that common usage as you've given is actually a mutation of "the plane [load of people] [were] evacuated".
Because in English you can omit all sorts of important stuff from a sentence and still make sense :-)
Did the pilot go down with the plane?
Id go down on the plane, its very hot.
Oh yeah baby! Bruum bruum! Show me those smokey blades! Can I suck your turbine hub caps? Yeah baby!
Oh wait! You're an Airbus? I thought Airbuses were uptight! Compared to everyone's friend the very loose Boeing. The 373 gives everyone as many cheap rides as they will pay for. But watch out for emergency exit doors man!
What kind of passenger plane.
Other articles on the incident say it was an Airbus A321.