China’s
civil aviation authority has fined Dubai-based Emirates airline for violating
safety rules and banned it from adding new routes in the country for six
months.
On April 17, an Emirates plane flew at the wrong height over the city
of Urumqi in far-western Xinjiang, causing “serious flight conflict,” the Civil
Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) said in a statement. In another “unsafe
event” also over Urumqi on May 18, an Emirates plane lost radio communications
during its flight, the regulator said. The leading Middle Eastern airline was
fined 29,000 yuan (4,270 dollars).
Emirates was previously barred from adding
new planes and routes in China for six months after a January 2016 incident
where a plane landed with low fuel. The CAAC said its officials recently met
with Emirates representatives to assess operations of the airline in the
country in recent years.
At the meeting, Emirates executives briefed the CAAC
on its own internal investigation and proposed corrective measures. Earlier
this week, the authority said it had “zero tolerance” for “security risks” and
would introduce new methods to prevent accidents. Emirates offers 38 weekly
flights to and from China, providing connections to over 150 cities in the
world.
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