{"id":212350,"date":"2025-10-20T04:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T04:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/212350\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T04:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T04:01:07","slug":"hong-kong-two-dead-after-cargo-plane-skids-off-runway-into-sea-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/212350\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong: Two dead after cargo plane skids off runway into sea &#8211; follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airport authorities say they gave correct instructions to planepublished at 04:43 BST<\/p>\n<p>04:43 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\">Martin Yip<br \/>BBC News Chinese, in Hong Kong<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hong Kong airport and rescue officials have stressed that while an investigation is underway, they are convinced that the airport &#8211; one of the world&#8217;s busiest and safest &#8211; was not at fault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier at the press conference, a reporter asked if it was possible an air traffic controller might have given wrong instructions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pointing to a map of the runway, Steven Yiu, who leads airport operations at the Hong Kong Airport Authority, said that &#8220;this was not a normal route&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yiu explained that there are illuminated signs guiding planes to exit the runway &#8211; Runway 07L in this case &#8211; and there is no indication at this stage that those signs were not switched on. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Correct instructions were given to the cargo plane, officials stressed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yiu also told reporters that the patrol car was outside of the runway fence, and this was not a runway intrusion. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Authorities say investigations are still underway and they have not ruled out a criminal probe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Airport authorities say they gave correct instructions to planepublished at 04:43 BST 04:43 BST Martin YipBBC News Chinese,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-212350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}