All safe after Chinese plane’s emergency landing

Updated Friday, November 21, 2008 10:26 am TWN, Reuters

All safe after Chinese plane’s emergency landing

BEIJING -- All aboard a Chinese aircraft were safe after it was forced to make an emergency landing on the southern resort island of Hainan due to a technical fault, state media said on Thursday.

The Shanghai Airlines Boeing 737 was flying from Shanghai to Cambodian capital Phnom Penh with 149 passengers late on Wednesday when an alarm alerted the pilots to a problem with a fuel pump, the official Xinhua news agency said. The aircraft landed safely in Hainan’s provincial capital Haikou, the report added.

An investigation is under way. An Air China flight turned back half way from Beijing to Hangzhou on Thursday after police received a threatening call, Xinhua said, citing a company spokesman. It turned out to be a “false alarm”, it said without elaborating.

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