{"id":89890,"date":"2025-10-20T11:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T11:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/89890\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T11:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T11:30:09","slug":"two-killed-as-cargo-plane-skids-off-hong-kong-runway-into-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/89890\/","title":{"rendered":"Two killed as cargo plane skids off Hong Kong runway into sea"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man aboard the ground vehicle, aged 30, was confirmed dead at the scene while a 41-year-old man died after being rushed to hospital.<\/p>\n

The airport\u2019s north runway was temporarily closed on Monday morning, while the other two runways remain operational.<\/p>\n

The South China Morning Post today reported the aircraft was leased from and operated by ACT Airlines, a Turkish operator.<\/p>\n

An Emirates spokesperson told the SCMP the crew were confirmed safe and there was no cargo on board.<\/p>\n

The crash happened before an International Air Transport Association symposium due to start in Hong Kong on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Aviation world leaders are expected to attend the symposium.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, passengers on a Cathay Pacific flight from Auckland to Hong Kong on Sunday were told a typhoon was \u201cheading in the general direction of China\u201d.<\/p>\n

The pilot said the typhoon was in the Philippines at the time and he planned to give it a wide berth.<\/p>\n

– Agence France-Presse. Additional reporting: NZ Herald<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man aboard the ground vehicle, aged 30, was confirmed dead at the scene while a 41-year-old man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,806,29893,9218,37055,28649,8984,109,42,20588,296,3375,45499,15028,9878,43,6662,384,15026,1447,3048,3008,67729,67730,40,38,41,39,1237,6845,3608,102],"class_list":["post-89890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-as","tag-authorities","tag-before","tag-cargo","tag-collided","tag-dawn","tag-ground","tag-headlines","tag-hong","tag-into","tag-killed","tag-kong","tag-landing","tag-monday","tag-news","tag-off","tag-people","tag-plane","tag-runway","tag-said","tag-sea","tag-skids","tag-slid","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-two","tag-vehicle","tag-were","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}