Cathay Pacific has cancelled almost 70 flights following an engine component failure.
A problem unfolded several minutes after take-off on flight #CX383 from Hong Kong to Zurich on Monday.
The five-year-old A350-1000 plane (registration B-LXI) performed two wide circles and dumped fuel over the sea before returning to Hong Kong where it landed safely about 75 minutes after its departure.
Since Monday, Cathay Pacific has cancelled almost 70 flights, including routes linking Hong Kong to Sydney, Singapore, Bangkok, Tokyo, Seoul and Taipei.
The company says it has now inspected all 48 of its Airbus A350s and found 15 aircraft with faulty parts that needed to be replaced. The airline has 30 A350-900s and 18 A350Ks.
The planes’ Trent XWB-97 engines were made by British engineering giant
A person familiar with the matter told Reuters the incident involved a problem with a fuel nozzle inside a Rolls-Royce XWB-97 engine, the model used on the A350K.
