Another MAS plane turned back this morning

KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysia Airlines (MAS) plane on a flight from Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) to Incheon International Airport, South Korea was reported to have turned back early this morning.

According to the Flightradar24 website, the flight using an Airbus A330-323 aircraft took off from KLIA at 12.01 this morning before turning around and landing safely at KLIA a few hours later.

According to information on the global flight tracker website, flight MH66 was supposed to take off at 11.30 last night.

However, Malaysia Airlines has so far not issued any statement regarding the matter.

This is the latest incident involving MAS flights being forced to turn back or be diverted in less than a month.

On 22 August, flight MH152 which departed from Kuala Lumpur at 2.23 pm bound for Madinah, Saudi Arabia had to turn around due to a pressurisation issue and landed back at KLIA at 5.22 pm.

The day before that, flight MH386, which also used an Airbus A330-300 aircraft, departed from Kuala Lumpur to Shanghai at 9.14pm and reportedly had to turn back to KLIA after flying for about 70 minutes, due to cabin pressure problems.

On August 20, flight MH128 from Melbourne to Kuala Lumpur had to make an emergency stop at Alice Springs Airport, Australia due to engine problems at approximately 4.35am local time.

On 4 August, a Malaysia Airlines flight MH156 carrying 259 Umrah pilgrims bound for Jeddah turned back to KLIA due to technical problems shortly after take off.

Meanwhile, a source from the Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia (CAAM) confirmed the incident but the authority has not yet received a full report from MAS.

"All the passengers who boarded the plane are safe.

"Further information such as the cause of the incident and so on needs to be obtained from MAS," he said when contacted.

- BERNAMA

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