Plane in emergency landing in Hangzhou
By Yang Jian |
July 26, 2012, Thursday
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A PASSENGER plane made an emergency landing in Hangzhou last night after smoke appeared in the cabin, terrifying passengers on the China Southern Airlines flight.
No one was injured during the incident and the plane landed safely.
Later, the airline said the smoke had been thick mist formed due to an air-conditioner malfunction.
The smoke was detected in the front cabin area at around 5pm about eight minutes after the Airbus 319 plane with 105 passengers onboard took off from Xiaoshan International Airport, said Ruan Zhouchang, the airport's media center director.
The plane turned back to the airport where it made an emergency landing.
"We were all freaked out when the smoke appeared and a woman sitting beside me immediately started crying," a woman passenger said. "I wanted to calm her down but found myself also frightened."
She said the plane had been delayed for four hours in Hangzhou and that had already made passengers feel anxious.
At least five fire trucks were sent to the scene but there was no fire on the plane, passengers said.
Flight CZ6199 left Daqing in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province and was heading for the southern city of Guangzhou with a stopover in Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang Province.
"Maintenance workers have confirmed it was the air cycling machine that malfunctioned and sent a thick mist in the cabin," a China Southern Airlines spokesman said.
No one was injured during the incident and the plane landed safely.
Later, the airline said the smoke had been thick mist formed due to an air-conditioner malfunction.
The smoke was detected in the front cabin area at around 5pm about eight minutes after the Airbus 319 plane with 105 passengers onboard took off from Xiaoshan International Airport, said Ruan Zhouchang, the airport's media center director.
The plane turned back to the airport where it made an emergency landing.
"We were all freaked out when the smoke appeared and a woman sitting beside me immediately started crying," a woman passenger said. "I wanted to calm her down but found myself also frightened."
She said the plane had been delayed for four hours in Hangzhou and that had already made passengers feel anxious.
At least five fire trucks were sent to the scene but there was no fire on the plane, passengers said.
Flight CZ6199 left Daqing in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province and was heading for the southern city of Guangzhou with a stopover in Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang Province.
"Maintenance workers have confirmed it was the air cycling machine that malfunctioned and sent a thick mist in the cabin," a China Southern Airlines spokesman said.
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