CX880 to LA: aborted on takeoff; emergency chute deployed
 

Per Bloomberg's breaking news terminal today... anyone know what happened?

Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. evacuated passengers in Hong Kong from a flight to Los Angeles after the plane aborted its takeoff early Saturday due to a signal anomaly.

The 293 passengers and 17 crew members aboard flight CX880 were evacuated through an emergency chute at Hong Kong’s airport after the plane scrapped its takeoff and taxied back to parking, the city’s airport authority said in a statement.

Medical treatment was provided to those injured on site, though 11 passengers required further treatment at hospital.

The airline has arranged hotel accommodation for the affected passengers and another aircraft has been deployed to operate CX880, with a flight scheduled to depart at 10 a.m. Saturday, Cathay Pacific said in a statement. Alternate arrangements have also been made for those with connecting flights.

Passengers who required treatment were accompanied to the hospital by airline staff, according to the statement. Cathay said it will cooperate with authorities on the investigation.

Cathay Flight to LA Evacuated in HK After Takeoff Aborted - Bloomberg

Unbelievably, from what I saw on social media, many passengers had their hand luggage with them (not just backpacks or handbags, but full on suitcases).

​​​​​​There was video of a large roll aboard tumbling down a slide.

Read somewhere else that one of the tyre burst before take off.

That seemed to be the original media story. Does not match super well with the movement of the plane

フライトCX880便 Hong Kong発 - Los Angeles行きのPlaybackをFlightradar24でチェック。 https://fr24.com/data/flights/cx880#30d7c687

It seems that it was a burst tyre problem just prior rotation that cause4d he problem.
All those hospitalised are I understand released and a replacement aircraft took the flight without too much delay
Re the movement of the aircraft I realised that the radar trace was that of the. replacement aircraft..

According to reasonably reliable media reporting, the burst tires came from aborting the take off at 125 knots

The Flightradar24 I posted above is gate to gate on Hong Kong, so I hope it is not the replacement aircraft, as that would get the passengers back to the gate twice.

Those people should be criminally charged with interference of an emergency evacuation.

Maybe people will think twice about doing this when there are consequences.

Agree - it is mind-boggling how selfish and outright stupid people can be! Perhaps such people should be evacuated without the use of slides…

They should be stopped by the FA manning the exit to step aside while others evacuate. They can be the last to leave.

It now seems that the burst tyre (s) was as a result of the pilot applying the emergency breaking due to a serious technical fault being indicated .
A local pilots network is posting that the fault indication was a false alarm.
As CPH-F mentions above - local sights are posting that several passengers were injured due to heavy objects being dropped on them from the overhead bins by fellow passengers and at least one of with minor injuries somehow fell from the slide

Looking at the videos posted to social media, there did not seem to be a great urgency to the evacuation. Someone literally had time to record the view from L3. There should be a cabin crew member there getting the passengers out faster. But seems not. Judging from the videos, I'll put some of the blame on the crew, though I was not there and videos may easily be deceiving.

I do wonder how I would react in an evacuation. I'd like to believe I'll be following proper procedures. But I'd actually prefer not to know from experience.

I was wondering where the cabin crew were in all of these videos...

Takeoff aborts do happen.
The screw ip seems the evacuation procedure.

1. Why were the landslides used while the plane had returned to the gate with no one worrying about the tyres?

2. Why does evacuation appears so disorderly while FAs should be at the evacuation doors?

I was not there, so just raising questions.

I don't understand why the slides were deployed only after the aircraft had returned to the gate. If there was an urgent need to evacuate, couldn't the evacuation occur before the aircraft returned to the gate?

If the evacuation appeared to be disorderly, I wonder whether it was the passengers who decided to open the doors and hence activated the slides.

The behavior of the passengers taking their hand luggage with them during the evacuation does not surprise me at all.