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Willa Wu

Cathay Pacific Airways has diverted a Hong Kong-to-New York flight to Tokyo after a passenger reported feeling unwell during the journey.
Hong Kong’s flag carrier on Sunday confirmed the diversion of flight CX840, which left the city at around 6.25pm on Saturday.
“Flight CX840 from Hong Kong to New York JFK on [Saturday] was diverted to Tokyo Haneda to offload a customer who became unwell during the flight. The aircraft landed safely at 1.44am local time on [Sunday],” a Cathay Pacific spokesman said.
The carrier said local airport staff sent the passenger to a hospital for further medical treatment.
Other passengers were put up in a local hotel as the flight had to stay overnight at the airport due to “the statutory requirement on crew operation and rest hours set by the Hong Kong Civil Aviation Department”, the spokesman added.
The carrier did not reveal how many passengers were affected by the diversion.
The flight departed Tokyo on Sunday at 9.34pm, or 8.34pm Hong Kong time. The flight time from Tokyo to New York is around 13 hours.
“The safety of our customers and crew members guides every decision we make,” the spokesman said, while apologising to the affected passengers for the inconvenience.
This is the second time in a week that Cathay has diverted a US-bound flight to Tokyo.
Last Sunday, flight CX806 from Hong Kong to Chicago was diverted to Tokyo Narita International Airport due to an unruly passenger, who was later escorted off the aircraft.
A source said the passenger was disruptive on the flight as he had been drinking and the cabin crew removed alcohol from him. He was given a verbal warning but continued to behave in an unruly manner, the insider added.
Last month, Cathay blacklisted two Cantonese-speaking passengers who harassed a mainland Chinese traveller on a London-bound flight.
The mainland traveller posted on social media platform Xiaohongshu that she was kicked and verbally abused by the couple sitting behind her after she reclined her seat.
Last month, two fatalities were reported on Cathay flights, including a Bangladeshi passenger, 47, who collapsed while flying from Dhaka to Hong Kong.
A passenger, 71, from Germany died after passing out on a Mumbai-bound flight from Hong Kong shortly before take-off. The crew rushed to provide first aid.
He was taken to hospital and later declared dead.
Kenneth Kwok, chairman of Cathay’s Flight Attendants Union, had said that in any medical situation, cabin crew would assess how best to perform first aid on the passenger according to circumstances. Crew would perform resuscitation and get a defibrillator while paging for doctors on board, he said.
The captain would communicate with the ground to get instructions for a diversion or stay on the route, while contacting Medlink, a global in-flight medical service that connects aircraft with doctors through response centres in Phoenix, Frankfurt, Beijing and Johannesburg.
In the case of death, cabin crew members would “place the passenger in a body bag which covers them from feet to around the chest area, and place the passenger back onto their seat until landing”, he added.


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