{"id":525991,"date":"2026-07-05T06:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T06:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/525991\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T06:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T06:59:12","slug":"cathay-pacific-aircraft-evacuated-after-smoke-reported-in-cabin-on-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/525991\/","title":{"rendered":"Cathay Pacific aircraft evacuated after smoke reported in cabin on landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">All crew and passengers have been safely evacuated from a Cathay Pacific Airways flight from India after smoke was reported inside the cabin of the aircraft after landing in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Flight CX624 from Bengaluru landed at Hong Kong International Airport at 9.53am on Sunday. Smoke was reported inside the cabin of the Airbus A330 while it was exiting the runway.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A preliminary police investigation found the smoke originated from the overheating air-conditioning system, and it dissipated shortly after landing as the system cooled.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The aircraft taxied to a parking bay, where all passengers and crew were safely evacuated, with no injuries reported, according to the city\u2019s flag carrier. The fire service was on standby at the scene.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cOur engineering team is performing necessary inspections and maintenance checks on the aircraft before returning it to service,\u201d a Cathay spokesman said, without elaborating on the cause of the glitch.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe safety of our customers and crew guides every decision we make.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All crew and passengers have been safely evacuated from a Cathay Pacific Airways flight from India after smoke&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[240419,114,175652,240418,240420,85,207,46],"class_list":["post-525991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-air-conditioning-system","tag-business","tag-cathay-pacific","tag-civil-aviation-department","tag-hong-kong-airport","tag-il","tag-india","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}