Dozens of aborted landings at Hong Kong amid second tropical storm in a week
Just days after Typhoon Hato caused air travel chaos in Hong Kong, another major storm has had a similar effect.
Tropical storm Pakhar brought strong winds and heavy rain to Hong Kong and Macau again on Sunday.
It led to 42 aborted landing attempts at Hong Kong International Airport with flights diverting to mainland China cities, and as far as Bangkok and Manila.
The South China Morning Post reports some pilots tried multiple unsuccessful attempts to land at HKIA.
Cathay Pacific flight 238 from London made no fewer than three attempts at landing before being diverted to Kaoshiung.
A total of 206 flights were cancelled and more than 450 delayed, with around 50 planes stuck on the tarmac at one point.
Airport officials said it would operate both runways overnight instead of the usual one, to cope with the backlog of delayed flights.
All ferry services were again cancelled.
The Hong Kong Observatory had issued a severe T8 warning early Sunday but that was gradually downgraded by Sunday evening with operations very slowly getting back to normal.
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