Fire on Shelf During Flight of Hong Kong Airlines...Suspected auxiliary battery
Mar 21, 2025
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According to foreign media, including the Straits Times, Hong Kong Airlines Flight HX115, which departed from Hangzhou, China and was heading to Hong Kong, caught fire and landed urgently at Fuzhou Airport at around 2 p.m.
Passengers said that when the plane took off, white smoke began to rise from the shelves with an explosion.
The crew and passengers poured water and juice to put out the fire.
At the time, 160 passengers and eight crew members were on board, and no one was injured.
Hong Kong Airlines has not yet revealed the cause of the fire, but passengers suspect that the auxiliary battery in the shelf caught fire.
Video claiming to be the scene of the accident at the time is now spreading online, which shows that the in-flight baggage shelf is charred.
Meanwhile, recent fire accidents caused by auxiliary batteries have led to increased anxiety among travelers.
An assessment result showed that the fire on Air Busan Hong Kong-bound flight BX391, which was preparing to take off from Gimhae International Airport on January 28, was believed to have been caused by a short circuit of an auxiliary battery.
Also, on the 24th of last month, a suspected fire accident occurred due to an auxiliary battery on a Malaysian Batik Air flight departing from Johorbaru, Malaysia, and heading to Bangkok, Thailand.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
