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The Hong Kong airdrome runway progressive successful a deadly level clang has restarted operations, authorities said Tuesday (October 28, 2025), conscionable implicit a week aft 2 men were killed successful the city's deadliest aerial incidental since 1998.
On October 20 a Boeing cargo level veered disconnected the airport's northernmost runway during landing, past deed a information patrol car and skidded into the sea.
The salvage cognition was completed connected Monday (October 27, 2025) nighttime and the progressive runway has reopened, Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee said Tuesday (October 28, 2025), adding that the airdrome was moving arsenic usual.
More than 20 flights person utilized the runway since 7 a.m. Tuesday (October 28, 2025) (2300 GMT Monday), according to information from tracking website Flightradar24.
Two airdrome information unit were killed successful past week's incident, with authorities saying they had been successful a harmless presumption "outside the runway area".
The city's aerial mishap probe authorization is present conducting an probe covering unit qualifications, formation operations, and attraction records, Mr. Lee said.
The achromatic container formation recorders were retrieved connected Friday (October 24, 2025) night, and a preliminary probe study is expected to beryllium released wrong a month.
Mr. Lee said that the plane's crew, from Istanbul-headquartered ACT Airlines, has remained successful Hong Kong since the crash.
Officials said earlier that some the American and Turkish civilian aviation mishap investigative agencies, arsenic good arsenic experts from Boeing, are participating successful the probe.
The clang happened astatine the airport's newest runway, portion of a HK$142 cardinal ($18 billion) enlargement task that was completed past year.
