Cathay Pacific Airways Airbus A330-343X B-LAD (msn 776) (100th aircraft) SYD (John Adlard), originally uploaded by Airliners Gallery.
Cathay Pacific Airways’ (Hong Kong) flight CX 715 with 136 passengers on board returned to Singapore after it departed to Jakarta, Indonesia. The crew returned to SIN after a stall warning in the number 2 engine. The aircraft was an Airbus A330.
The airline issued the following statement:
“Cathay Pacific confirmed that CX 715 which departed from Singapore to Jakarta at 00.54 am on May 16, 2011 returned to Singapore following a stall warning from the Number 2 engine. The crew shut down the Rolls Royce engine when they received the alert.
An emergency landing was declared and the aircraft returned at 01.57 am without incident. Fire services met the aircraft on arrival. The aircraft stopped on the taxiway and sparks from the Number 2 engine were reported. They were doused by fire extinguishers.
The 136 passengers on the A330 disembarked without incident and were accommodated in hotels. Most were transferred to other flights later this morning.
Cathay Pacific and Rolls Royce are investigating the incident which has been reported to the Hong Kong Civil Aviation Department. “
Copyright Photo: John Adlard.
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