Another fault on Chinese MA-60 aircraft
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Another fault has been experienced onboard the Chinese-made MA-60 aircraft, Xinhua reports.
The turboprop belonging to Okay Airways was forced to delay its landing at Shenyang, in northwest China’s Liaoning province, on Tuesday, due to what has been reported as a “faulty instrument”.
The MA-60, which was carrying 38 passengers from Tianjin to Shenyang, eventually touched down more than two and half hours late. While the exact nature of the fault has not been revealed, Xinhua reported that passengers were “in tears” when the plane landed. “Some passengers got quite emotional despite the cabin crew’s efforts to calm us down,” one person aboard the flight was quoted saying.
The aircraft’s subsequent flight from Shenyang to Yanji, Jilin province, was cancelled.
The incident comes just weeks after the landing gear of an MA-60 operated by China’s Joy Air collapsed after the aircraft landed at Zhengzhou airport.
The plane, which is manufactured by China’s Xi’an Aircraft Industry Co., has been cited in numerous safety incidents in the past five years, including the 2011 crash of a Merpati Airlines flight in Indonesia, which killed 21 people.
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