2 Airport Security Workers Killed By Cargo Ship Slipping In Hong Kong

JAKARTA - A Boeing 747 cargo plane skidded into a security patrol car at Hong Kong International Airport.

The plane dragged a car into the sea killing two airport workers on Monday, October 20, at 03.50 in the morning local time.

The executive director of the airport authority for the Hong Kong International Airport operations, Steven Yiu, said ahead of landing the plane captain did not contact the control tower to ask for help and then slide about half the runway before slipping to the left.

"The patrol car was not in a hurry at all to get on the runway. It was the plane that was off the runway and crashed into a patrol car outside the fence," he said at a press conference, Monday, October 20, quoted from AFP.

This plane crashed after flying from Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The Boeing 747 was flown by ACT Airlines based in Turkey based on leases from the Emirates.

According to the task force of the assistant to the senior ambulance chief of the fire department, the four crew members were in stable condition not injured after being rescued.

Yiu Men-yung said the rescue team plunged into the sea and found two airport security officers trapped in the car after a 40-minute search. The other two officers were declared dead.