MH66 divert to Hong Kong due to inoperative aircraft generator.

[Zamir 0]

 

[Media Statement - MH066 Diversion]

Malaysia Airlines confirms that flight MH066 from Kuala Lumpur to Incheon on 23 March 2014 was diverted to Hong Kong due to an inoperative aircraft generator which supplies normal electrical power. However electrical power continued to be supplied by the Auxiliary Power Unit. The aircraft was then diverted to Hong Kong for rectification and landed uneventfully.

MH066 operated on the A330-300 aircraft, departed from Kuala Lumpur at 11.37pm and was scheduled to arrive Incheon at 6.50am local time.

All 271 passengers from M066 have been transferred on other carriers. The return flight MH067 from Incheon to Kuala Lumpur is cancelled and passengers have been transferred on other carriers as well as subsequent Malaysia Airlines flight to Kuala Lumpur.

https://www.facebook.com/my.malaysiaairlines/posts/522542071192324

 

Another case for Malaysia Airlines

 

 

[Y. J. Foo 0]

This, and the bird strike at KTM earlier have been somewhat exaggerated in wake of the recent event.

 

Otherwise this wouldn't even register a beep among journalists.

[Suzanne Goh 0]

This, and the bird strike at KTM earlier have been somewhat exaggerated in wake of the recent event.

 

Otherwise this wouldn't even register a beep among journalists.

 

Agreed. This kind of thing happens more often than we think - diversions and bird strikes.

[V Wong 0]

The same kind of journalistic 'strike while the iron is hot' happened following QF's A380 problem a few years back.

Edited March 24, 2014 by V Wong

[JuliusWong 0]

Aircraft: 9M-MTC, delivered on 10-06-2011.

[S M Tang 0]

Was the flight diverted due to the inop Gen or because of the pax?

 

http://www.therakyatpost.com/news/2014/03/24/jittery-passenger-grounds-mas-plane/

[Suzanne Goh 0]

Was the flight diverted due to the inop Gen or because of the pax?

 

http://www.therakyatpost.com/news/2014/03/24/jittery-passenger-grounds-mas-plane/

 

If that is true, that is the SILLIEST thing you can do aboard. The Ethiopian 767 hijacking in the comoros comes to mind - many drowned because they floated to the ceiling and were unable to get out the door.

[Johan Z 0]

I rather have my flight diverted and delayed. Some people are just ungrateful.

[BC Tam 2]

Some people are just ungrateful.

Who ?

[Samuel Chy 0]

Who ?

 

I believe he meant those who make sounds on the delays or diversion.

IMHO, whenever any delayed or diversion happen, mean i am safe on ground already.

[KC Sim 2]

On another ordinary day ... such a diversion would absolutely not be news-worthy at all ... and on a slow news day, it would at most warrant a little blurp of no more than 50 words tucked away in a corner of your newspaper next to some advertisement selling instant 3-in-1 coffee mix.

 

Sadly, much of the mainstream media - once driven by the adrenalin from an accident - become blood-thirsty and prey on even the smallest deviation from regular operation and begin to blow it out of all proportion. These journalists on a regular day would be reporting on sedate parliament sittings and mindless debates, morbid murders and gruesome gangrapes ... or griping about food prices and pollution from illegal slash and burn activities in oil palm plantations. And now that MH370 turned them into aviation monsters (yes, they become these since they learnt how to pronounce big words like "transponders" and "ACARS" and "Doppler shift"), they home in on anything remotely linked to aviation and turn these into breaking news.

 

We just have to learn to laugh at this form of journalism and ignore such reports. During any press events, you quickly spot such journalists as they pressure themselves to be among the small handful that do ask questions ... and in the process, they ask the most stupid questions that cause many of their fellow journalists to roll their eyes so far back and down they could see their own rectums.

 

KC Sim

Edited March 26, 2014 by KC Sim

[Simon 3]

I will be on this flight this saturday(MH66), hope everything will be alright...

[flee 5]

Nothing new - media frenzy also happened in the aftermath of the Qantas A380 uncontained engine failure. Every single incident involving the A380 or Qantas was extentively reported...

[Roy Chin 0]

Saw this bird 24th mar at HKIA hangar in my flight while taxiing on the runway...