--- description: Aircraft suffers electricity-generator failure on the way from Kuala Lumpur to Seoul title: Malaysia Airlines Flight MH066 Makes Emergency Landing in Hong Kong image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte96d0ea13576292a/698686e0810bbb52b9c90a1f/rtr2n6q7.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Malaysia Airlines](/tag/malaysia-airlines/) ## Malaysia Airlines Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # A Malaysia Airlines Flight Makes an Emergency Landing in Hong Kong by [Per Liljas](/author/per-liljas/) ## Per Liljas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 24, 2014 5:45 AM CUT  A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane is seen from the departure hall at the Hong Kong International Airport in a file photo taken in June 2011 A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane is seen from the departure hall at the Hong Kong International Airport in a file photo taken in June 2011Bobby Yip—Reuters by [Per Liljas](/author/per-liljas/) ## Per Liljas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 24, 2014 5:45 AM CUT A Malaysia Airlines flight from Kuala Lumpur to Seoul [suffered](http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1456074/malaysia-airlines-flight-makes-emergency-landing-hong-kong-after "undefined") an electricity-generator failure and had to make an emergency landing in Hong Kong on Monday morning. “Electrical power continued to be supplied by the auxiliary power unit,” said a company statement. “The aircraft was then diverted to Hong Kong for rectification and landed uneventfully.” The Malaysia Airlines statement added that all 271 passengers on Flight MH066, an Airbus 330-300, had been transferred to other carriers. The incident comes 16 days after the still unexplained disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which was en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The search for that flight is ongoing and is unprecedented in commercial aviation history. \[[SCMP](http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1456074/malaysia-airlines-flight-makes-emergency-landing-hong-kong-after "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/35129/malaysia-airlines-flight-mh066-emergency-landing-hong-kong/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/35129/malaysia-airlines-flight-mh066-emergency-landing-hong-kong/"},"headline":"A Malaysia Airlines Flight Makes an Emergency Landing in Hong Kong","datePublished":"2014-03-24T05:45:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T06:55:12.517Z","description":"The aircraft suffers electricity-generator failure on the way from Kuala Lumpur to Seoul","url":"https://time.com/35129/malaysia-airlines-flight-mh066-emergency-landing-hong-kong/","keywords":["Malaysia Airlines","Hong Kong topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte96d0ea13576292a/698686e0810bbb52b9c90a1f/rtr2n6q7.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Per Liljas","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/per-liljas/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte96d0ea13576292a/698686e0810bbb52b9c90a1f/rtr2n6q7.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"RTR2N6Q7","caption":"A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane is seen from the departure hall at the Hong Kong International Airport in a file photo taken in June 2011","creditText":"Bobby Yip—Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/malaysia-airlines/","name":"Malaysia Airlines"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/35129/malaysia-airlines-flight-mh066-emergency-landing-hong-kong/","name":"A Malaysia Airlines Flight Makes an Emergency Landing in Hong Kong"}}]}] ```