(Bloomberg) -- An Asiana Airlines Inc. plane crash-landed short of the runway amid rains at Hiroshima Airport in Japan, injuring 27 passengers in its first accident since a crash landing in San Francisco almost two years ago.

The plane flew so low that the tail section of the Airbus Group NV A320 hit landing system devices placed 330 meters (361 yards) from the end of the runway, Noritoshi Goda, an official at the transport ministry’s aviation bureau, said by phone. The plane then veered off the runway, causing the landing gear to collapse and leaving both wings and the left engine damaged, the transport ministry said.

Tuesday night’s accident echoed the July 2013 Asiana crash at San Francisco International Airport, when a wide-body Boeing Co. 777 hit a seawall before reaching the runway, killing three people. The pilots mismanaged that approach, flying too low and slow and then failing to abort the touchdown, U.S. investigators said in a report last year.

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