Twenty people have been injured after a plane made a crash landing and skidded off the runway at Hiroshima Airport in Japan.

There were believed to be 74 passengers and seven crew members on board Asiana Airlines flight OZ162 when it was reported to have made a tailstrike and skidded off the runway.

Japanese media are reporting that the plane spun 180 degrees after impact to be left facing the wrong way on the runway.

Local media were on the scene to report on a plane that crash landed and skidded off the runway in Japan

Twenty people are believed to have been injured after the plane had a tailstrike at Hiroshima

The airport has been closed as a result of the crash, and emergency services are at the scene, with injured passengers being taken to hospital.

The Airbus A320 had set off from Incheon International Airport in Seoul, South Korea to Hiroshima, when it is believed to have missed the landing point on the runway.

Local television footage appeared to show evidence of a hard landing and no sign of the landing gear, along with images of evacuation slides that were deployed.

NHK, the national public broadcaster in Japan, described it as a crash landing and reported that the plane overran the runway at 8pm local time.

Television footage appeared to show evidence of a hard landing and no sign of the landing gear (file photo of different plane model)

Asiana Airlines Inc, based in Seoul, is one of South Korea's two major airlines, along with Korean Air.