Cathay Pacific passengers left vomiting, screaming in fear on storm-wracked flight to Hong Kong


HONG KONG: Cathay Pacific Airways passengers described vomiting and screaming in fear as their Hong Kong-bound flight battled intense turbulence and failed twice to land at the airport amid bad weather on Tuesday (April 30).

A passenger shared the ordeal in a post on popular mainland Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu, after Cathay Pacific flight 341 from Shanghai suffered a delay of more than seven hours from its planned touchdown at 7.30pm at Hong Kong International Airport.

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