Firefighters called as Cathay flight lands in Hong Kong with ‘defective’ part
A Cathay Pacific Airways flight from Beijing with a “defective component” required firefighters to be on standby after landing in Hong Kong on Friday, with all passengers and crew members eventually disembarking from the Airbus A330-300 aircraft safely. Flight CX331, which departed from Beijing on Friday afternoon and landed in Hong Kong just before 8.30pm,…
Flight CX331, which departed from Beijing on Friday afternoon and landed in Hong Kong just before 8.30pm, had a “suspected abnormal system indication after landing”, according to a Cathay spokeswoman.
Firefighters were on standby as a precaution, but “the aircraft taxied to the parking bay as usual, and the passengers safely disembarked”, she added. No injuries were reported.
The spokeswoman said subsequent troubleshooting identified a “defective component” that was fixed according to “standard aircraft maintenance procedures”.
According to Cathay’s website, the plane involved was an Airbus A330-300.
Multiple technical issues have surfaced in the model in recent years, including in August last year, when a Hong Kong-bound Cathay Pacific flight failed to take off on the runway at Kaohsiung International Airport in Taiwan after one of its engines burst into flames.
