INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The Chinese passenger plane had 157 passengers and nine crew on board
airport on Tuesday, after the pilots aborted landing at nearby Macau and declared "Mayday", aviation authorities said.The flight, which had
taken off from Beijing, was operated by Capital Airlines, the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) said in a statement on its
Capital Airlines is a unit of Hainan Airlines.The crew also reported a fault in one of the Airbus A320's engines, according to CAAC.Capital
Airlines said in a post on Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter, that it suspected the flight encountered wind shear whilst attempting to
land in Macau and the crew "concluded that landing gear may have been damaged."It said there were 157 passengers and nine crew on board.The
airport at Shenzhen, about 40 kilometres (25 miles) northeast of Macau, shut one of its runways for three hours to accommodate the emergency
Thomson Reuters 2018(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by TheIndianSubcontinent staff and is published from a
