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China Southern flight makes emergency landing at Auckland Airport

Xinhua, November 5, 2016 Adjust font size:

A China Southern Airlines passenger aircraft made an emergency landing at Auckland Airport shortly after taking off on Saturday.

The aircraft, carrying 212 people, had taken off for Guangzhou in southern China just before 11 a.m., Radio New Zealand reported.

An airport spokesman said in the report that the flight had to turn back because of engine problems and landed safely at 11.35 a.m..

The flightaware.com website showed the aircraft had flown a small circle just after takeoff before doing a wide loop to come back in to land. Endit