A Hong Kong Airlines flight made an emergency landing in northern Japan on Monday after the cabin started to de-pressurize, a government official said, adding that no one was hurt in the incident.
The Airbus A330 jet, which was carrying 223 passengers and 12 crew members, took off from New Chitose Airport, the main gateway to the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, at 5:07 pm (0807 GMT).
At 5:36 pm, the pilot reported that the flight needed to return to the airport because of sudden decompression, a Japanese transport ministry official told AFP.
The pilot, who declared it an emergency, landed in New Chitose at 6:36 pm, the official said, adding that the cause behind the loss in pressure was not immediately clear.
“We have been told that oxygen masks did not come down,” the official said, adding that this might mean the severity of decompression was not critical enough to automatically deploy the masks.
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