At 9.30am local time, a Japan Airlines flight travelling from Komatsu Airport in Ishikawa Prefecture to Tokyo Haneda Airport encountered a tyre blowout while taxiing on the runway. All 60 passengers aboard the flight were uninjured. According to a report by NHK, the aircraft halted during its journey to the parking area, where airport personnel promptly replaced the deflated tyre. Following this, the aircraft was safely moved to the parking lot, allowing passengers to disembark without incident.<br/>
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Hong Kong flag carrier Cathay Pacific Airways will relaunch direct flights to Rome this summer, bringing the number of its European destinations to 12. The airline said on Wednesday that the service between Hong Kong and the Italian capital would run from June 5 to October 25. The service was suspended in February 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Hong Kong-Rome route, set to run three times a week, will be Cathay’s second direct connection to Italy. The airline currently operates five weekly flights to Milan, which will become daily this summer.<br/>
Ten passengers on board a Cathay Pacific Airways flight from Nepal to Hong Kong on Wednesday suffered food poisoning, with city authorities saying sandwiches they ate before the journey might be to blame. The Centre for Health Protection said it was notified by the airline that some passengers arriving from Kathmandu in the morning reported food poisoning symptoms, including vomiting, nausea, abdominal pain and fever. Upon arrival, workers from the centre’s port health division boarded flight CX640 to carry out an epidemiological investigation. Four of the 10 sought medical advice upon landing, but none required hospitalisation, it added. The cluster involved six men and four women aged between 21 and 38. Nine were part of a group joining an exchange trip to Nepal and ate the same takeaway meal of chicken, cucumber and tomato sandwiches with salad dressing and French fries about two hours before boarding, four to five hours before the onset of symptoms, according to the centre. “Based on the epidemiological information currently available, it is likely that the sandwiches were the source of the outbreak,” it said.<br/>