A Cathay Pacific flight returned to Boston after smoke was reported in the cockpit: report
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A Cathay Pacific flight from Boston was forced to turn around shortly after takeoff due to smoke in the cabin and cockpit.
Footage posted online is said to show smoke filling up from Flight CX811 – an Airbus A350 – after taking off from Hong Kong on Monday morning.
“At first, I thought maybe it was just the difference in altitude,” said passenger Emily Chen. He told WCVB.. “And then I can’t breathe, what’s going on?”
“I said a few prayers, I was like, ‘Dear Lord, let’s all go to the same place,'” she said, describing the incident as “scary.”
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A Cathay Pacific Airbus A350-900 passenger plane is seen landing at London’s Heathrow Airport in October 2024. A similar Airbus operated by Cathay Pacific was forced to turn around from a runway in Boston this week, according to reports. (Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)
The plane finally landed safely in Boston around 3:21 am.
Cathay Pacific did not immediately respond to a request for comment from FOX Business.
| Ticker | Security | last one | Change | change % |
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| CPCI | Cathay Pacific Airlines Ltd. | 6.735 | -0.06 |
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The airline told WCVB that “as a precaution, the flight returned to Logan International Airport in accordance with standard operating procedures.”
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A Cathay Pacific Airbus A350-1000 passenger plane is seen parked at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport in April 2024. (Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)
No one was injured. Engineers are said to be investigating the cause of the smoke.
“The flight (we) started, and I saw a lot of smoke around me,” passenger Hochen Wu told WCVB.
The air traffic control tower at Boston Logan Airport on Wednesday, March 13, 2019 in Boston, Mass. (Nicholas Czarnecki/Media News Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images/Getty Images)
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Smoke was also reported in the cockpit. According to MassLive.com.