Due to a damaged cargo plane on the runway, which made an emergency return to the airport after taking off in the early morning, Hong Kong International Airport said, one of the two runways was closed on Monday ( Jun 17 ).
A ship made an emergency turn up and experienced a tyre tumble incident upon landing. A Hong Kong Airport Authority spokesperson stated in a statement that was still legitimate on Monday afternoon that the malfunctioning cargo jet was already stationed on the north runway.
The aircraft was unable to confirm when the runway may reopen. Diffusions of deviations had been delayed since early dawn, according to the site.
An Atlas Air goods plane bound for Anchorage, Alaska took off from the airport at about 4am on Monday ( 2000 GMT on Sunday ) before returning to the airport and getting less than four hours later, flight tracking data from FlightRadar24 displays.
According to monitoring data, the Boeing 747 ship was over Taiwan when it retreated to Hong Kong.
Atlas Air, headquartered in the US, did not respond to a request for comment right away.