A total of 460 flights to Hong Kong (China) had to be canceled on September 1 due to the impact of Typhoon Saola, including flights by Cathay Pacific, the region’s largest airline.
At the same time, most other public transport in Hong Kong was also suspended for the day.
Typhoon Saola causes difficulties for people in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region – China. Photo: AP
Surprisingly, when Typhoon Saola swept over the special area with heavy rain and wind, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner belonging to Ethiopian Airlines (Ethiopia) landed at Hong Kong Airport.
Flight number ET608 took off from the Thai capital Bangkok at around 1:45 pm and successfully landed in Hong Kong at 5:06 pm yesterday.
This plane landed at the time when the last passenger plane had landed in the special area about 3 hours ago.
At this time, there were no other aircraft departing from Hong Kong or the city of Shenzhen in China’s Guangdong province.
Flights were canceled in Hong Kong (China) and mainland China due to Typhoon Saola. Photo: AP
The “adventure” of flight number ET608 thus received close monitoring by more than 6,400 people worldwide via the flight data tracking website FlightRadar24.
“ET608 became the most seen aircraft in the global sky as it landed at Hong Kong Airport on the evening of September 1” – bloomberg Comment.
The Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner landed on a wet runway with a forecast of significant wind shear and moderate turbulence. Then, Saola is still at super typhoon level with maximum winds of about 210 km/h and at 5:00 pm was still about 110 km from Hong Kong.
This is believed to be the strongest storm to hit this financial center in the last 5 years.
Hurricane Saola has maximum winds of 210 km/h near the center of the storm. Photo: Reuters
