Cathay Pacific flight CX383 took off shortly after midnight on Monday, bound for Zurich. It didn’t get far however. Just minutes after departure, the A350 aircraft entered a holding pattern just south of Hong Kong before returning to the airport a short while later, according to FlightRadar.
Cathay Pacific Airways cancelled dozens of flights on Tuesday after detecting an engine fault in one of its Airbus A350 aircraft. The mid-flight discovery of the problem forced the Zurich-bound flight to return to the carrier’s base in Hong Kong.
So what happened?
