{"id":9108,"date":"2025-10-20T13:38:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/cargo-plane-skids-off-runway-in-hong-kong-two-reported-dead\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T13:38:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:38:47","slug":"cargo-plane-skids-off-runway-in-hong-kong-two-reported-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/cargo-plane-skids-off-runway-in-hong-kong-two-reported-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Cargo plane skids off runway in Hong Kong; two reported dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>A cargo plane flying from Dubai skidded off the runway into the sea while landing at Hong Kong International Airport early on Monday, the city&rsquo;s airport operator said, with local media reporting the deaths of two people.<\/p>\n<p>Photos taken after the accident showed a Boeing 747 cargo aircraft with AirACT livery partially submerged in water near the airport&rsquo;s sea wall with an escape slide deployed and the nose and tail sections separated.<\/p>\n<p>The four crew members on board the plane were rescued, the Hong Kong airport said in a statement. Two people who were inside a ground vehicle near the runway that was suspected to have been struck by the aircraft have died, the South China Morning Post reported, citing police.<\/p>\n<p>Police did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The northern runway at the world&rsquo;s busiest cargo airport is closed after the incident, Hong Kong International Airport said, adding the south and central runways would continue to operate.<\/p>\n<p>The accident occurred around 3:50 a.m. Hong Kong time on Monday<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Hong Kong&rsquo;s Civil Aviation Department said in a statement on Monday that the aircraft had &ldquo;deviated from the north runway after landing and ditched into the sea.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Two ground staff were affected and fell into the sea, and their conditions are pending confirmation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Emirates said in a statement that flight EK9788 sustained damage on landing in Hong Kong on Monday and was a Boeing 747 cargo aircraft wet-leased from and operated by ACT Airlines.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Crew are confirmed to be safe and there was no cargo onboard,&rdquo; Emirates said.<\/p>\n<p>ACT Airlines is a Turkish carrier that provides extra cargo capacity to major airlines. It did not respond immediately to a request for comment outside normal business hours.<\/p>\n<p>Flight tracking service FlightRadar24 said the aircraft involved in the accident was 32 years old and had served as a passenger plane before being converted into a freighter.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/migrant-acquitted-in-first-trial-over-us-border-military-zones\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">Migrant acquitted in first trial over US border military zones<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Hong Kong&rsquo;s Civil Aviation Department said it had reported the incident to the city&rsquo;s Air Accident Investigation Authority and it would support the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"small-caps text-small text-serif\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">&copy; Thomson Reuters 2025.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><sub>Cargo plane skids off runway in Hong Kong; two reported dead<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cargo plane flying from Dubai skidded off the runway into the sea while landing at Hong Kong International Airport early on Monday, the city&rsquo;s airport operator said, with local media reporting the deaths of two people. Photos taken after the accident showed a Boeing 747 cargo aircraft with AirACT livery partially submerged in water&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/cargo-plane-skids-off-runway-in-hong-kong-two-reported-dead\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Cargo plane skids off runway in Hong Kong; two reported dead&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}