A Cathay Pacific employee posted to Facebook, before deleting their post, that they caught “foreign objects” left in the engine of an Airbus A350-1000 half an hour prior to departure from Hong Kong.
Credit: Anonymous employee
The aircraft, which first flew on October 25, 2018, and has the manufacturer serial number MSN 233, was taken out of service and passengers were sent to Zurich to continue flight CX383 using a different A350.
Today I was refueling this CX383..BLXF. I saw foreign objects left in the engine before 30 minutes to takeoff,I talk with captain by immed,after check by engineer, the mention aircraft need stop to fly for repair…I should have successfully prevented an aviation incident to happeningAviation safety is everybody responsibility…..
P.S….This post will be delete at hkt 12:00 on 06 Apr 2024.
This was the April 3 flight just after midnight. The trip was delayed about 2.5 hours while transferring to the new aircraft.
(HT: Bill S.)
