Cathay Pacific flight makes emergency landing at Fukuoka

Sunday 19th July, 03:41 PM JST

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ilcub76 at 05:48 PM JST - 19th July

Glad to see that everybody made it through safely.
combinibento at 06:38 PM JST - 19th July

Wow, yet another Chinese airliner in trouble...
nandakandamanda at 09:04 PM JST - 19th July

Er, hello! Air conditioner fog is quite common in planes. People who have never flown in a plane before? This is getting silly... Paranoia rules?
smithinjapan at 09:30 PM JST - 19th July

combinibento: "Wow, yet another Chinese airliner in trouble..."

Dude, Cathay Pacific was started by an American WWII pilot not long after the war ended, and is based and developed in Hong Kong. Calling it a 'Chinese airline' with such an air of arrogance is pretty misleading and just plain wrong. Technically it may belong to China, as does Hong Kong, but Cathay is nothing like, say, East China Airlines.
smithinjapan at 09:31 PM JST - 19th July

And anyway, ALL airlines seem to be having trouble these days, more or less.
TumbleDry at 09:38 PM JST - 19th July

a Boeing 747... buy Airbus... Hmmm no forget it...
JohnBecker at 09:54 PM JST - 19th July

I'm guessing the pilot and the air traffic controllers weren't calling this an emergency. In pilot parlance, this is a "precautionary" landing.
Pukey2 at 09:58 PM JST - 19th July

combinibento: "Wow, yet another Chinese airliner in trouble..."

Following hot on the heels of another 'Chinese' airliner called Air France.
smithinjapan at 10:54 PM JST - 19th July

Pukey: "Following hot on the heels of another 'Chinese' airliner called Air France."

More accurately, I'd say following a Korean Air plane which had a problem the other day, and a Japan Airlines flight which had a problem (a seat catching on fire), and a flight with people injured due to turbulence (was that Japan Air again, or an American airline? I forget). Then of course as you said there's Air France, and lest we forget the plane that went down in Iran...

In other words, as I said, it seems ALL airlines are having trouble these days.
Rekin at 11:40 PM JST - 19th July

Dear Smithinjapan, I do not want to put on an air of arrogance but I've been quite a few times to Hongkong, where I could hardly see any other people but Chinese speaking Cantonese i.e. a form of Chinese. You will agree, won't you. Thus, Cathay Pacific is a Chinese company from Hongkong, albeit started by an American pilot (air of arrogance?)
Triple888 at 12:08 AM JST - 20th July

Wow, yet another Chinese airliner in trouble...

Cathay Pacific is one of the few five-star airlines around - none of which are Japanese. Don't comment if you don't know anything.
nandakandamanda at 12:12 AM JST - 20th July

Cathay Pacific is owned by the Swire Group out of the UK, I believe. Cathay have merged with DragonAir. The point is the passengers got panicky and the captain had to make a quick decision, right?

Every little thing is getting reported at the moment.
smithinjapan at 12:58 AM JST - 20th July

Rekin: "Dear Smithinjapan, I do not want to put on an air of arrogance but I've been quite a few times to Hongkong, where I could hardly see any other people but Chinese speaking Cantonese i.e. a form of Chinese. You will agree, won't you. Thus, Cathay Pacific is a Chinese company from Hongkong, albeit started by an American pilot (air of arrogance?)"

My point is that the poster in question seemed to be making a blanket statement about 'Chinese (airlines)' more than anything, and while, as I said, Hong Kong and Cathay are technically Chinese, there are a good deal many differences between it and 'Mainland China', or, is the whole 'two forms of government' thing not different at all? haha. Perhaps you can enlighten us as to when Hong Kong joined the mainland, and when Cathay was created?

Anyway, others have bashed the sentiment that 'Cathay is just another Chinese airline' quite well in the posts after mine, so go ahead and dispute it more if you like.

Cathay is a superior airline, bottom line. Oh, and Cantonese isn't a 'form of Chinese', it's a language in and of its own. You can argue that technically it's a dialect, like French and Spanish are technically dialects, but hey. Oh, and the other day I met some Taiwanese who were speaking English in Japan, so what should I assume there? :)
Pukey2 at 09:17 AM JST - 20th July

Rekin:

Dear Smithinjapan, I do not want to put on an air of arrogance but I've been quite a few times to Hongkong, where I could hardly see any other people but Chinese speaking Cantonese i.e. a form of Chinese.

Look, Rekin, who or what the pasengers are is not related to how the airline is run. And many of the pilots seem to have western surnames. And as Triple said, Cathay is near the top of the list when it comes to good airlines (BA, you can go bankrupt for all I care!)