Plane lands successfully after malfunction scare
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A flight bound for Shenyang in northeast China's Liaoning Province has made a successful landing after a faulty instrument forced it to delay descent on Tuesday.
![A flight bound for Shenyang in northeast China's Liaoning Province has made a successful landing after a faulty instrument forced it to delay descent on Tuesday, February 25, 2014. [Photo/sohu.com]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20140226/7427ea210acc14777f2b01.jpg "A flight bound for Shenyang in northeast China's Liaoning Province has made a successful landing after a faulty instrument forced it to delay descent on Tuesday, February 25, 2014. [Photo/sohu.com]")
A flight bound for Shenyang in northeast China's Liaoning Province has made a successful landing after a faulty instrument forced it to delay descent on Tuesday, February 25, 2014. [Photo/sohu.com] |
Flight BK2870, operated by Okay Airways Company Ltd. headquartered in Beijing, landed successfully at Shenyang Taoxian International Airport (STIA) at 8:24 p.m., more than two and half hours later than the scheduled time, a spokesman with the airline told Xinhua. No casualties were reported.
Some passengers went out of the main hall of the STIA in tears after the plane touched down, including a 21-year-old student surnamed Gong.
"The plane hovered over the airport for more than two hours, and some passengers got quite emotional despite the cabin crew's efforts to calm us down," a tearful Gong said.
The five crew members of the aircraft are now under investigation, and further details regarding the accident will be published soon, according to the STIA.
The plane was scheduled to fly to Yanji City of the neighboring Jilin Province via Shenyang, but the rest of the journey has been canceled due to the incident.
Among the 22 passengers bound for Yanji, 14 have either got a refund or changed their tickets, while eight have been offered accommodation at a local hotel, sources with the STIA said.
The aircraft, carrying 38 passengers, took off at 4:42 p.m. from Tianjin Binhai International Airport of north China's Tianjin Municipality.
The landing came as a relief for many Chinese who followed online updates on the incident.
Writing on a news forum, a user with the screen name "Sohu75453994" said, "A false alarm turns out to be the most fortunate thing in the world."
Okay Airways began operating in 2005 as the first private airline in China The company boasts 23 airplanes.
The malfunctioning plane, a Modern Ark (MA)-60 model made by China's Xi'an Aircraft Industry Company, is one of 11 MA-60 aircraft owned by Okay.
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