Cathay Pacific Worker Discovers Foreign Objects In Airbus A350 Engine Minutes Before Takeoff For Zurich

by Gary Leff

A Cathay Pacific employee posted to Facebook, before deleting their post, that they caught “foreign objects” left in the engine of an Airbus A350-1000 half an hour prior to departure from Hong Kong.

Credit: Anonymous employee

The aircraft, which first flew on October 25, 2018, and has the manufacturer serial number MSN 233, was taken out of service and passengers were sent to Zurich to continue flight CX383 using a different A350.

This was the April 3 flight just after midnight. The trip was delayed about 2.5 hours while transferring to  a new aircraft.