Firefighters called as Cathay flight from Beijing lands in Hong Kong with ‘defective’ part
Passengers and crew disembark safely after ‘suspected abnormal system indication’ on Airbus A330-300 arriving from Beijing on Friday night
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.