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Sammy Heung

Cathay Pacific Airways has apologised after one of its flights from Tokyo to Hong Kong suffered a suspected hydraulic system failure.
In a reply to the Post, the carrier said on Tuesday that flight 501, which took off from Narita, Tokyo, experienced an issue with its hydraulic system on its way to Hong Kong at 10.08pm the night before.
“As a precautionary measure, the crew followed standard safety procedures and notified the relevant authorities so that they could be on standby in case any assistance was required,” a Cathay Pacific spokesman said.
“The aircraft safely landed at Hong Kong International Airport at 1:33am (Hong Kong time) on 26 November. No injuries to crew or customers were reported.
“Safety of our customers and crew guides every decision we make. We sincerely apologise to the affected customers for the inconvenience and appreciate their understanding.”
Hydraulic system failures can have a range of consequences from inability to retract landing gear to loss of control of an aircraft in extreme cases.
The Post has contacted the Airport Authority for more details.
The airport’s website shows the flight had arrived at the gate at 2.24am on Tuesday.
According to a flight information website, the aircraft type of CX501 is an Airbus A350-1000. The plane was scheduled to head to Narita International Airport from Hong Kong at 9.30pm on Tuesday.

A brief engine fire occurred on a Cathay A350 plane heading to Zurich in September.
The carrier later found that 15 A350 aircraft out of its 48-strong fleet had the same engine component failure that sparked the fire, forcing 90 flights to be cancelled that week.
The engine component failure later led to the grounding of the carrier’s entire fleet of Airbus A350s, the cancellation of nearly 100 flights and global scrutiny by the aviation industry.
Cathay at the time said the fault involving Rolls-Royce’s Trent XWB-97 engine was the first of its kind.
In August, a Hong Kong-bound Cathay Pacific flight – an Airbus A330-300 – failed to take off on the runway at Kaohsiung airport in Taiwan after flames were seen bursting out from one of its engines.
A month earlier, a toilet door became detached during a flight from Hong Kong to New York. The aircraft involved was also an Airbus A350.


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No injuries reported on CX501, with the Airbus A350-1000 landing safely in the early hours of Tuesday morning


No injuries reported on CX501, with the Airbus A350-1000 landing safely in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
