A Malaysia Airlines flight to South Korea made an emergency landing in Hong Kong early Monday after its main electrical generator stopped working, CNN reports.
The flight set off from Kuala Lumpur at 11:37pm, Sunday and was scheduled to arrive at 6:50am the next day at Incheon International Airport, Seoul.
Hong Kong airport said it received a call at 2:30am alerting it of the flight's urgent change of course and placed local teams on standby.
The 271 passengers on board have been transferred onto flights with other airlines, Malaysia Airlines said.
Malaysia Airlines said the reason for the diversion of flight 066 was “an inoperative aircraft generator, which supplies normal electrical power.”
Electrical power continued to be supplied by the plane’s auxiliary power unit, it said.
Malaysia Airlines is in the international spotlight following the disappearance more than two weeks ago of MH370 flight with 239 people on board.