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Hong Kong International Airport said one of the airport’s two runways was closed on Monday (June 17), causing flight delays, because a cargo plane was damaged on the runway and had to return to the airport urgently after taking off in the early hours of the morning.
“A cargo plane made an emergency return after a tire burst during landing. The faulty cargo plane is currently parked on the north runway,” a spokesman for the Hong Kong Airport Authority said in a statement released on Monday afternoon, which was still valid as of Monday afternoon.
The airport could not say when the runway would reopen. The airport website showed dozens of flights had been delayed since early morning.
Flight tracking data from FlightRadar24 showed an Atlas Air cargo plane bound for Anchorage, Alaska, took off from the airport at around 4 a.m. Monday (2000 GMT Sunday) and returned to the airport and landed less than four hours later.
Tracking data showed the Boeing 747 cargo plane turned back to Hong Kong while flying over Taiwan.
U.S.-based Atlas Air did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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