Hong Kong Airlines Passengers Brought Back by Garuda Indonesia
7 May 2016 16:36 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Denpasar - At least 95 passengers of Hong Kong Airlines flight HX-6704 which experienced severe turbulence have been flown back to Hong Kong from Denpasar by a Garuda Indonesia plane on Saturday (7/5).
"As many 95 passengers of the Hong Kong Airlines plane who survived the turbulence incident have been flown to Hong Kong at 9:35 am Central Indonesia Standard Time (WITA), but the rest are still given facilities to stay at a hotel to wait for the next scheduled departure,” said Yuanita, spokesperson of state-owned airport operator PT Angkasa Pura I on Saturday.
For the record, at least 17 passengers were injured after a Hong Kong Airlines flight to Hong Kong experienced turbulences over the sky of Kalimantan early Saturday morning.
The plane carried 204 passengers and 12 crew members on board and took off from Ngurah Rai airport at 1:05 am WITA and was expected to arrive in Hong Kong at 7:05 am local time but the severe turbulence forced it to "return to base."
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